{"id":6011,"date":"2019-05-15T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:13:28","slug":"like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/05\/15\/like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hardest part of me is my skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

It protects me from the outside world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People pick at me, trying to eat my insides.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m scarred, chipped, and broken.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a fish out of water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thrown into a world<\/span><\/p>\n

that is nothing like my own.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m aging; I\u2019ll never be the same again.<\/span><\/p>\n

My shell is cracking. They are getting through.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I\u2019m not as indestructible as I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I am meant to be broken.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m burning from the outside in.<\/span><\/p>\n

I scream, but no one tries to save me.<\/span><\/p>\n

They leave me to drown; to boil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then they tear me open and eat my innards.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is a sad life for a lobster like me.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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The hardest part of me is my skin. It protects me from the outside world.\u00a0 People pick at me, trying to eat my insides. I\u2019m scarred, chipped, and broken.   I\u2019m lost. I\u2019m a fish out of water.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thrown into a world that is nothing like my own.   I\u2019m aging; I\u2019ll never … Continue reading “Like Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}