{"id":9862,"date":"2020-11-02T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=9862"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:21:55","slug":"poetry-luke-stromberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/poetry-luke-stromberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#8211; Luke Stromberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The First Obscenity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before we turned our eyes from nudity,<br \/>\nOr banished certain words, death was the first<br \/>\nObscenity\u2014the one from which the rest,<br \/>\nIn time, would find their way. The first<br \/>\nTo make a joke of life. The first<br \/>\nTo show us what may come of children&#8217;s games:<br \/>\nA skull left caked in mud, the slicing rain.<br \/>\nWhat is a rude word if not a reminder<br \/>\nOf the grave in which one\u2019s coffin will be lowered?<br \/>\nAn old man&#8217;s kiss upon a young girl&#8217;s navel<br \/>\nWould not be possible if not for death.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed up in our Sunday best, our deaths<br \/>\nSeem almost hypothetical. They\u2019re not.<br \/>\nPlastic surgeons, age-defying creams,<br \/>\nAir-brushed waistlines on the cover of <em>Cosmo<\/em>\u2014<br \/>\nThese prove our distaste. Death\u2019s in the ghetto.<br \/>\nBut only look out past your green kept lawn,<br \/>\nAnd there it is, unfazed, a grinning fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Obscenity Before we turned our eyes from nudity, Or banished certain words, death was the first Obscenity\u2014the one from which the rest, In time, would find their way. The first To make a joke of life. The first To show us what may come of children&#8217;s games: A skull left caked in mud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":9879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5725,5726,5727,5728],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-luke-stromberg","tag-luke-stromberg-death","tag-luke-stromberg-poet","tag-luke-stromberg-the-first-obscenity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862","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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/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=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}