{"id":640,"date":"2018-06-06T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/?page_id=640"},"modified":"2018-10-04T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T21:04:09","slug":"whats-a-good-caption-for-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/previous-issues\/crystallize-review-2018\/poetry\/whats-a-good-caption-for-this-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Good Caption for This Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>asks the girl who woke up at 8 a.m.<br \/>\nunlike the day before<br \/>\nwhen she had class at that time<br \/>\nbecause fuck class, right?<\/p>\n<p>why learn about the rest of the world<br \/>\nwhen the early morning lighting is the best<br \/>\nfor showing off fake cleavage of breasts<\/p>\n<p>held too high, by enough foam<br \/>\nto smother any intellectual thought<br \/>\nbut not enough to kill the hope<br \/>\nthat Brad from math class will throw<br \/>\nher tits a like<\/p>\n<p>fifty dollars for a bra that<br \/>\nwill ensure at least five comments<br \/>\nbut fuck the drive thru workers, right?<br \/>\nthe ones that ask if you want to donate<br \/>\na dollar to help fight world hunger<\/p>\n<p>around the world<br \/>\ngirls\u2019 clits are being cut<br \/>\nout with razors<br \/>\ntheir vaginas sewn<br \/>\nshut until their wedding<br \/>\nday when a man<br \/>\n30 years older<br \/>\nrips them open and<br \/>\npeople are being shot in the skull because<br \/>\nof the amount of melanin in their skin and<br \/>\nhundreds of thousands of children<br \/>\nhave no clean water to drink and<br \/>\ntheir ribs stick through their skin<br \/>\nsharper than the blades used<br \/>\nfor circumcision.<\/p>\n<p>but thank god for her<br \/>\nblessing all 1,000 followers<\/p>\n<p>and just maybe,<br \/>\nif she comes up with a caption good enough,<br \/>\nshe\u2019ll get one more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrea O&#8217;Boyle<br \/>\n<\/strong>Honorable Mention, Distinguished Voices in Literature Poetry Prize<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This poem takes on the ambitious task of responding to contemporary issues by forcing us to re-examine our own lives and priorities. This is a poem with the potential to make something happen.<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.cortland.edu\/departments\/english\/distinguished-voices-in-literature\/christine-kitano\">Christine Kitano<\/a>, Contest Judge, author of\u00a0<em>Sky Country<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Birds of Paradise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-627 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/06\/IMG_3487-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" \/><\/strong><strong>Andrea O\u2019Boyle<\/strong> is a Communications major with a minor in Professional Writing. Her writing is usually a product of her love for all things living and her immense belief in the power of words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/current-issue\/poetry\"><strong>Back to Poetry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asks the girl who woke up at 8 a.m. unlike the day before when she had class at that time because fuck class, right? why learn about the rest of the world when the early morning lighting is the best for showing off fake cleavage of breasts held too high, by enough foam to smother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"parent":425,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-640","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/crystallize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}