{"id":922,"date":"2019-01-02T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=922"},"modified":"2020-06-08T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T00:17:00","slug":"chloe-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/chloe-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All you ever asked<br \/>\nof life<br \/>\nwas thin little flakes<br \/>\nsprinkled frequently enough<br \/>\nso you could munch and munch<br \/>\nto your gentle little heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>At first I feared,<br \/>\nas your little belly swelled,<br \/>\nthat you were egg-bound,<br \/>\nthen that you were over-eating,<br \/>\nas your glide became a waddle,<br \/>\nand, alarmingly,<br \/>\nI no longer needed a net<br \/>\nto airlift you to the other tank<br \/>\nso the rest could eat in peace<br \/>\nand you would not burst:<\/p>\n<p>I could just scoop you up<br \/>\nin my hands,<br \/>\nyour soft, tubby little form,<br \/>\nand you,<br \/>\ntoo swollen to struggle,<br \/>\nbut now I know,<br \/>\nalso too weak.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought<br \/>\nit&#8217;s because all you care about<br \/>\nis food.<\/p>\n<p>When my sluggish soul realized<br \/>\nyou were neither gravid<br \/>\nnor gourmande<br \/>\nbut suffering from a fearful illness<br \/>\nI rushed<br \/>\nto purchase the paraphernalia for a cure,<br \/>\nbut you could no longer wait,<br \/>\nnor even resist the filter,<br \/>\ngrown stronger than you,<br \/>\nwhich locked you in its orbit,<br \/>\nso you could only linger there<br \/>\ngasping, helplessly.<\/p>\n<p>So sudden.<br \/>\nWas it because I unjustly underfed you<br \/>\nin your last weeks?<br \/>\nOr failed to freshen your water enough?<br \/>\nOr discovered your ailment too late?<br \/>\nOr the world was just too much &#8212; or too little &#8212; for you?<\/p>\n<p>Your waddle is still now.<\/p>\n<p>You drift freely with the little whirl-pool.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if you still are.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t dare decide not.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>I squeeze your bloated little belly<br \/>\ngently, maybe I can expel the poison.<\/p>\n<p><i>And soon I must umpire the learn\u00e8d paper<br \/>\nthat confidently argues<br \/>\nthat <a href=\"https:\/\/animalstudiesrepository.org\/animsent\/vol1\/iss3\/1\/\">fish do not feel<\/a><br \/>\nnor see<br \/>\nnor suffer.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My own little lump of gold,<br \/>\nthe only gold of value.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t betray you again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1404\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/01\/chloe2-1-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/01\/chloe2-1-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/01\/chloe2-1.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you ever asked of life was thin little flakes sprinkled frequently enough so you could munch and munch to your gentle little heart&#8217;s content. At first I feared, as your little belly swelled, that you were egg-bound, then that you were over-eating, as your glide became a waddle, and, alarmingly, I no longer needed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/02\/chloe-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chloe II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}