{"id":3940,"date":"2019-05-12T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:49:51","slug":"twenty-four-seven-by-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2019\/05\/12\/twenty-four-seven-by-hedgehog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;TWENTY FOUR SEVEN&#8217;, by Hedgehog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">I am your pain.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Like Puck; quicksilver, impish, mischief-making.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">You\u2019re easily fooled, you make my nonsense real, you feel what is not true.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">I stab and prickle, or transform into<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">A metal straitjacket, squeezing your foot, your leg.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Imprisoned.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Around each toe, elastic bands pulled tight.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">You call me neuropathy; I say there\u2019s no such thing,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Your foot, your leg, your left side, are my playthings.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">When you sit quiet or sleep, I perch on your bed,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Waiting for you to move, when I will strike<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Half-numb, like an injection in the gum where you can\u2019t smile or chew,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Half feather-sensitive, you jump awake<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">When the duvet\u2019s pulled so gently by a sleeping partner; he is unaware<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">That you lie, struggling to relax, to breathe it out, make it go away&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">But I don\u2019t leave. 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