{"id":32952,"date":"2017-08-05T11:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:23:12","slug":"poem-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll shag you in the next life<br \/>\nWhen I am not me but the person you shag<br \/>\nAnd you and you<br \/>\nWe are one<br \/>\nBut our escapades take us abroad<br \/>\nInto threatening definitives<br \/>\nLike Westerns through the ravine<br \/>\nOr non-westerners through the west<br \/>\nBut<br \/>\nSatisfied in the good grace of a shadow<br \/>\nSome of the lust safely offloaded to a deduced wormhole<br \/>\nAll textural imagining true<br \/>\nPorthole<br \/>\nUnder the rhythmic bridge<br \/>\nBeneath the coffee plant<br \/>\nBut mass is harder<br \/>\nClear passionate<br \/>\nCope, glad<br \/>\nCare for the crying, incommunicative baby of your mind<br \/>\nTry shifting,<br \/>\nTry fresh air<br \/>\nAnd bring down the curtains<br \/>\nAnd make common the means<br \/>\nMake your stakeholder trust grow<br \/>\nShrink out the vast state of ramrods and respect<br \/>\nThe tomfoolery of the self declared king<br \/>\nShrink out those who make a sport of your lives<br \/>\nKick them out of their deckchairs, their box<br \/>\nTheir sallow oblivious nihilist eyes<br \/>\nAnd we will have a safe life<br \/>\nNot without challenge<br \/>\nNot without graft, I expect<br \/>\nIn the spinning seasons<br \/>\nBut not our own worst enemy any more<br \/>\nWe are sick, and mercy, we can be saved<br \/>\nFor many many many<br \/>\nFor the rapture of admitting reality<br \/>\nIn its dizzying pain<br \/>\nIts versimilitude<br \/>\nGrip<br \/>\nIf not you, who else<br \/>\nIf not now, what lemon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll shag you in the next life When I am not me but the person you shag And you and you We are one But our escapades take us abroad Into threatening definitives Like Westerns through the ravine Or non-westerners through the west But Satisfied&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32954,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions\/32954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}