{"id":3090,"date":"2018-10-15T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&amp;p=3090"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:00:10","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-your-body","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/saying-goodbye-to-your-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throw it in the forest before it starts to spoil.<br \/>\nLet birds shit it to obscurity.<br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be missed. Not by you and not<br \/>\nby the man on the train whose hand<br \/>\nyou grabbed by accident. The lights flickered<br \/>\nand you let yourself get carried away by fear.<br \/>\n<em>I don&#8217;t know you<\/em>, the man said, excused<br \/>\nhimself away from you. Everyone forgets eventually.<br \/>\nEven the boy whose disappointment you captured<br \/>\non parchment paper and hung in your bedroom<br \/>\nfor years. His body is far gone from your bed<br \/>\nand slowly yours will be too.<br \/>\nThink of it as an extended vacation,<br \/>\na sweet Valium dream.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be reborn, a swamp-monster,<br \/>\nslick and diamond-tough.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll tear into an avocado and eat it,<br \/>\npit and skin and all. And you will have forgotten.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the only way to keep living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throw it in the forest before it starts to spoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3091,"template":"","categories":[9,49,119],"tags":[6,867,859,868,869,37,870,871],"class_list":["post-3090","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquifer","category-literary-features","category-poetry","tag-aquifer-the-florida-review-online","tag-betsabe-gomez","tag-bodies","tag-corporeal-existence","tag-fear","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-memory-and-forgetting","tag-saying-goodbye-to-your-body"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saying Goodbye to Your Body - The Florida Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/saying-goodbye-to-your-body\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saying Goodbye to Your Body - 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