feed the cat where you sleep,
\nwhere you eat, where you
\nfuck. where you pray.<\/p>\n
it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
cat food dust in your orthopedic gloves.
\ncat food dust on your pillow, in your lungs.<\/p>\n
you tried to fake your death write letters to the people you love take bluebeard\u2019s key to your chest. look at all the bodies doctor bills and specialist bills and side effects may vary. are you drinking enough water? cat in your lap doubles as a heating pad and never feed the cat where you sleep, where you eat, where you fuck. where you pray. it doesn\u2019t matter. cat food dust in your orthopedic gloves. cat food dust on your pillow, in your lungs. you tried to fake your death twice three times and came back home. turns out you never left. write letters to … Continue reading A Year In Bed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6885],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 13:23:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}twice<\/del> three times
\nand came back home. turns out you never left.<\/p>\n
\nbefore you lose the feeling again.<\/p>\n
\nyou\u2019re hiding in there.
\npaint them, write about them, sing them beautiful odes.<\/p>\n
\ninsurance statements and back payments.
\nhospital-blue lights and red tape
\nall of it here and all of it there all at once and
\nwhere are you?<\/p>\n
\ntake only when needed.
\ntake once per day.<\/p>\n
\nwhen was the last time you went dancing?
\nwhere are your friends, the ones you had in high school?<\/p>\n
\nleaves your side, even when that means you\u2019re
\ncrunched up, hunched over, forced to put the pen down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"