I was supposed to be telling the class a story
\nall their faces looking up at mine
\nwaiting for me to fill the silence<\/p>\n
But I froze
\nand the silence
\nstretched out
\nso long
\nthat this
\nabsence of story
\nbecame the story
\nto be remembered long beyond any
\nI could ever have told them<\/p>\n
This tale of the silent man
\nlooming
\nand strange
\nlonely
\nand slowly
\nmoving
\ntowards
\nsilent
\ntears<\/p>\n
__________<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. Written on September 23rd, 2019<\/em> I was supposed to be telling the class a story all their faces looking up at mine waiting for me to fill the silence But I froze and the silence stretched out so long that this absence of story became the story to be remembered long beyond any I could ever have told them This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[163,767,191,351],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-anxiety","tag-breakdowns","tag-poems","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. And not based on a true story<\/em>
\n3. Thankfully<\/em>
\n4. But on an anxiety dream <\/em>
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