{"id":4899,"date":"2017-06-22T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/162128137573"},"modified":"2017-06-22T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:36:44","slug":"tattoo-reads-when-words-become-inadequate-i-shall-be-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2017\/06\/tattoo-reads-when-words-become-inadequate-i-shall-be-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoo reads,\u00a0\u201cWhen words become inadequate, I shall be content&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/79445f1862b6268b4e914310476cd905\/tumblr_oryjh8LEic1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tattoo reads,\u00a0\u201c<i>When words become inadequate, I shall be content with silence<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>There are words waiting: a poem<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>My fingers, pink side up<\/p>\n<p>Hold stories made of gestures,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Signs and twirls.<\/p>\n<p>The whorls\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of each fingerprint start a chapter, a Sign Language tale.<\/p>\n<p>Violence made me mute when I was younger;<\/p>\n<p>It still returns as an adult &#8211; the silence<\/p>\n<p>I surrender<\/p>\n<p>To a fractured part inside my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Another name, another author<\/p>\n<p>Of my life takes hold.<\/p>\n<p>And when I stare at my palms, the lines,<\/p>\n<p>So fractured, divides<\/p>\n<p>Into several paths, many lives<\/p>\n<p>I have carried:<\/p>\n<p>A library of personalities tallied.<\/p>\n<p>My fingers move, my body remembers<\/p>\n<p>Trees towering above me<\/p>\n<p>And a book burning<\/p>\n<p>As another part of me rises from the embers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/79445f1862b6268b4e914310476cd905\/tumblr_oryjh8LEic1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Tattoo reads,&nbsp;&ldquo;<i>When words become inadequate, I shall be content with silence<\/i>&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>There are words waiting: a poem<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>My fingers, pink side up<\/p>\n<p>Hold stories made of gestures,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Signs and twirls.<\/p>\n<p>The whorls&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of each fingerprint start a chapter, a Sign Language tale.<\/p>\n<p>Violence made me mute when I was younger;<\/p>\n<p>It still returns as an adult &#8211; the silence<\/p>\n<p>I surrender<\/p>\n<p>To a fractured part inside my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Another name, another author<\/p>\n<p>Of my life takes hold.<\/p>\n<p>And when I stare at my palms, the lines,<\/p>\n<p>So fractured, divides<\/p>\n<p>Into several paths, many lives<\/p>\n<p>I have carried:<\/p>\n<p>A library of personalities tallied.<\/p>\n<p>My fingers move, my body remembers<\/p>\n<p>Trees towering above me<\/p>\n<p>And a book burning<\/p>\n<p>As another part of me rises from the embers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,527,560,561,452,496,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuse","category-csa","category-dissociative-identity-disorder","category-multiple-personality-disorder","category-poem","category-selective-mutism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6040,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/6040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}