{"id":6958,"date":"2014-05-12T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2014-05-12T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:40:05","slug":"childproof-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/childproof-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Childproof Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChildProofBoxes_585x585\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Childproof Boxes<\/strong><\/p>\n

You argue with me like we\u2019re underwater;<\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t drown you\u2019ll ask me to try harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m Icarus after on a single kilo<\/p>\n

A single night won\u2019t make me any harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Eight of us sitting at the hospice waiting<\/p>\n

and who are we to make decisions harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got pain pills sitting in my hands, a plan<\/p>\n

to make the fall shorter and harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to me you don\u2019t respect color much<\/p>\n

you\u2019ll drink that brown to sleep harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I think I\u2019m gay like the bible, for parents<\/p>\n

embarrassment is apparently harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I listen to my music to shut out the<\/p>\n

world\u2014white wire headphones make listening harder.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Bark<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation racked by colored screens,<\/p>\n

blinking, chirping, obscene,<\/p>\n

disheartened by a market, bear in nature, clawing, dragging and making<\/p>\n

bloody the hopes and dreams of home and life,<\/p>\n

who sit by idle in their fourth year, waiting, searching, lost,<\/p>\n

forever in the confusion that is generation lazy and stupid,<\/p>\n

who wade through clouds of smoke in burn tea weekends, sleep late Sundays,<\/p>\n

poisoning, scorching and crushing hopeful Mondays,<\/p>\n

who are to shy to make love that is not white, embarrassed by percentages,<\/p>\n

unfair, unrealistic of the hopes that we have for one another,<\/p>\n

who fail to trust, purple and gold bleeding diploma, scattered heads,<\/p>\n

useless in the real world they all said,<\/p>\n

Spirit nights, destroying, obsessing, sweater and collar wearing but plain clothes<\/p>\n

alike, fascinations with up all night, and sleep when dead, and sleep during<\/p>\n

class,<\/p>\n

who take in this generation\u2019s Benzedrine papers, excuses, test taking, focus,<\/p>\n

croaker writing a millenniums worth, fulfilling, repeating,<\/p>\n

who wait from Port, to Main, to old 42 and historic Cantrell for lectures,<\/p>\n

pouring from generations ago, aging and regurgitating, but not taking,<\/p>\n

notating, and failing those generations from years ago.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Dave Arbus is a senior Writing & Rhetoric student at James Madison University. \u00a0In his free time you\u2019ll find him memorizing rap lyrics and practicing his smile. \u00a0He hopes to one day to join the PGA tour and spend the rest of his life out on the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You argue with me like we\u2019re underwater;<\/p>\n

If I don\u2019t drown you\u2019ll ask me to try harder.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m Icarus after on a single kilo<\/p>\n

A single night won\u2019t make me any harder.<\/p>\n

Eight of us sitting at the hospice waiting<\/p>\n

and who are we to make decisions harder.<\/p>\n

Eight of us sitting at the hospice waiting<\/p>\n

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