{"id":35699,"date":"2017-08-05T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35699"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:07:06","slug":"poem-7-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-7-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">A British Science Fiction For South America<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five electric eels<br \/>\nSwung out over the ecclesiastic highway<br \/>\nDriven now only for acoustics<br \/>\nWaiting choirs complained of unbefitting stones<br \/>\nAnd the dogmas of their ingrained brethrin<br \/>\nIrritate their alternate<br \/>\nAnd pass again,<br \/>\nAt a speed of rules,<br \/>\nFive electric eels overtaking in sequence like<br \/>\nA juggling highway.<br \/>\nObscene ducks were carefully<br \/>\nRedirected from sight.<br \/>\nThe recordings were obdurate<br \/>\nPeople were divided between<br \/>\nThe many and the few<br \/>\nBut the many had been absorbed together<br \/>\nInto one mind, particularly linked<br \/>\nThat all who lost signal screamed rabbid unbearable<br \/>\nOr in peaceful lockstep harmony<br \/>\nSuch unhuman seductive harmony<br \/>\nSuch immense immortal promise<br \/>\nTransisted<br \/>\nBut the rot came like to the scotched<br \/>\nBanana plant<br \/>\nAnd now all must wear special jackets<br \/>\nAnd howl as what was supposed to leave<br \/>\nStruggle behind with new existence<br \/>\nResiliently betrays the lot<br \/>\nThat had been the plot of the few gone wrog<br \/>\nAnd now they consider with guilt<br \/>\nThe chant<br \/>\nAnd use landscapes for flutes<br \/>\nCompositions of brittle perfection<br \/>\nInterlacing Norman castles<br \/>\nThe Winchester cathedral now<br \/>\nAn office space<br \/>\nFor goblin clerks<br \/>\nAnd more mythologies<br \/>\nMore than I can bear<br \/>\nFor we intone reality<br \/>\nWith fantasy<br \/>\nSummon and spell<br \/>\nNot from warbling mirage<br \/>\nBut sleight of hand and throat<br \/>\nFear and nonchalance<br \/>\nThe piecemeal societal psychosis<br \/>\nTerrific, horrific effecting<br \/>\nUnpredictable yes<br \/>\nSend in the shrunken submarine<br \/>\nCautious all ye<br \/>\nWho tinker here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British Science Fiction For South America Five electric eels Swung out over the ecclesiastic highway Driven now only for acoustics Waiting choirs complained of unbefitting stones And the dogmas of their ingrained brethrin Irritate their alternate And pass again, At a speed of rules,&#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-35699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699","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=35699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions\/35834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}