{"id":118488,"date":"2022-06-26T00:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118488"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:44:19","slug":"imperceptible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/imperceptible\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperceptible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes swell, not shut<br \/>\nThey crack open<br \/>\nThey see a fuzzy image unclad in glasses and grainy with trapped matter.<br \/>\nBut underneath they puff and somehow resist<br \/>\nAll of it.<br \/>\nLights and sights and sounds.<br \/>\nCan I see sounds?<br \/>\nMaybe my ears send a warning shot racing across my nerves.<br \/>\nDamn.<br \/>\nThat sound.  You don&#8217;t want to see the cause of that.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we call it tired.<br \/>\nBut tired is up all night to cram for an exam.<br \/>\nToo many &#8220;last drinks&#8221; on the night that got away.<br \/>\nA grueling 12 hour shift ground to a halt.  Ground deep into the ground.<br \/>\nBut all that tired has<br \/>\nRelease.<br \/>\nUgh.<br \/>\nRelease.<br \/>\nFinished tests, hangovers that end, bones and flesh reaching bed.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call the feeling though,<br \/>\nIf you work the grueling shift<br \/>\nEveryday<br \/>\n9 years straight.<br \/>\nWhat word can describe that?<\/p>\n<p>Dead?  Hardly.<br \/>\nStuck?  A bit.<br \/>\nDeluded? Destructive?<\/p>\n<p>What word does we use for a tired that we can&#8217;t pinpoint the origin of and no rest on the horizon?<\/p>\n<p>How is it I feel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eyes swell, not shut They crack open They see a fuzzy image unclad in glasses and grainy with trapped matter. But underneath they puff and somehow resist All of it. Lights and sights and sounds. Can I see sounds? Maybe my ears send a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118590,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118488\/revisions\/118590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}