What a beautiful day to be a nihilist. The sun
\nshatters like a wine glass on the sheer ocean.<\/p>\n
Someone is stretching a canvas on the patio.
\nLittle blue flowers whose names I will never know<\/p>\n
sprout up in the grass, crickets trill,
\nan empty crab shell contemplates existence on the window sill\u2014<\/p>\n
the compost bin exudes its sweet
\nammoniac rot.<\/p>\n
Down in the surf,
\nsmall children scream their heads off.<\/p>\n
Christopher Robinson is a novelist, poet, and futurist. He is\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0co-author, with Gavin Kovite,\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0War<\/span>\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0Encyclop aedists<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Scribner, May 2015), which received glowing reviews in the New York Times<\/a> and the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.\u00a0He lives in Seattle with his partner, Amanda Knox, who pushes him daily to be more empathic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a beautiful day to be a nihilist. The sun shatters like a wine glass on the sheer ocean. Someone is stretching a canvas on the patio. Little blue flowers whose names I will never know sprout up in the grass, crickets trill, an empty crab shell contemplates existence on the window sill\u2014 the compost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}