{"id":36000,"date":"2014-05-13T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36000"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:20","slug":"diabetes-blog-week-day-2-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=36000","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Blog Week, Day 2: Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What diabetes is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The problem is<br \/> What diabetes isn&#8217;t<br \/> Which is ever not<br \/> In and out dusk and dawn<br \/> It is and it is and it is<br \/> I left my nothingness<br \/> At home today sir<br \/> An iron lung on wheels<br \/> It is what it is<br \/> Blood and analytes<br \/> Now now and now again<br \/> Is it in on cue<br \/> If so now only<br \/> Each is is<br \/> A moment unto itself<br \/> Was and will be impossible<br \/> Dreams and guesses<br \/> Every is is a hypothesis<br \/> Every experiment <br \/> Ends with blindness<br \/> I did not choose this adventure<br \/> But so it is<br \/> Over and again<br \/> And so it is<br \/> What it is<br \/> And what will be as they say<br \/> Will be<br \/> Which will be<br \/> Maybe one day<br \/> That diabetes isn\u2019t<br \/> And is instead<br \/> Tasteless odorless quiet<br \/> Like the hollow<br \/> In your clavicle<br \/> I kiss when you breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[1294],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - 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