{"id":1721,"date":"2021-12-02T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2021-12-02T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:53:01","slug":"witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nasser Lubega, MS III<br \/>\n<\/em><em>School of Medicine and Public Health<br \/>\n2021<br \/>\nPoem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Epigraph: Over the summer, a violent act was performed on a person I love, and I never got to say goodbye. One was a father, and the other his son.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the evening drew near,<br \/>\nI pulled you in with a choreographed dance<br \/>\ndomineering over the early night, spilling<br \/>\norange and pastel yellow.<br \/>\nI was a spinning top, see,<br \/>\n<em>and you were my axis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And you, you were explosive,<br \/>\na\u00a0<em>black artist\u00a0<\/em>erupting a kind of magic,<br \/>\npainting a picture so damning,<br \/>\nwe were foolish not to notice.<br \/>\nBut now our hearts glisten.<br \/>\nOur incandescent hearts burning.<br \/>\nThey glow, and sing the fire anthem-<br \/>\n<em>We are all hurting.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I\u2026I am raging, see.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Why would you do such a thing?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You held Him by the collar<br \/>\nand demanded He give you<br \/>\nwhat you never deserved.<br \/>\nYou proceeded with the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>May you be scorned by the earth itself.<br \/>\nMay your friends be blinded to their memory of you.<br \/>\nMay you forget the taste of fresh fruit.<br \/>\nMay you never find warmth ever again.<\/p>\n<p>Let there be absent flowers in your life.<br \/>\nLet your path to the market wind upon itself.<br \/>\nLet your speech be lacking in all punctuation<br \/>\nLet the smiles of no one brighten your day.<\/p>\n<p>And for your despicable act, kindness may now live in the exclamatory mode.<\/p>\n<p>But not to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasser Lubega, MS III School of Medicine and Public Health 2021 Poem &nbsp; (Epigraph: Over the summer, a violent act was performed on a person I love, and I never got to say goodbye. One was a father, and the other his son.) When the evening drew near, I pulled you in with a choreographed&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/witnesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2021-issue","category-writing","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebling.library.wisc.edu\/corpus-callosum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}