{"id":4725,"date":"2020-10-27T20:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/?post_type=product&#038;p=4725"},"modified":"2020-11-18T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:10:33","slug":"painless-life","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/product\/painless-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Painless Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 lang=\"en-US\">2 poems from Painless Life<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Love and<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">We have air and we have water and even good coffee\u2014the rest is neurosis\u2026<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">(love<br \/>\ncan give time and love can certainly take time<br \/>\nbut time only takes love)<br \/>\nSomeone\u2019s knocking because the bell doesn\u2019t work<br \/>\n(and time will kill us,<br \/>\nyou and I,<br \/>\nall,<br \/>\ntaking the best<br \/>\naway)<br \/>\nSomeone\u2019s knocking<br \/>\nand the sound reminds me of<br \/>\nthe taste of my own tongue<br \/>\nin my mouth<br \/>\nIt\u2019s you<br \/>\nYou\u2019re knocking because the bell doesn\u2019t work<br \/>\nI\u2019ll answer it like an addict<br \/>\nand look at you<br \/>\n(and the sad Hawaiian shirt blue ceiling of the world behind you, as beautiful as a wall of butterfly wings<br \/>\nbut in that instant that you realize that the butterflies all had to die to be pinned there)<br \/>\nmy mouth full of rope<br \/>\nand tasting like my own tongue<br \/>\nand my eyes stung with rusted moths<br \/>\nor dead butterflies<br \/>\nI will say<br \/>\n(or roses that bloom after they are cut<br \/>\nthat is,<br \/>\nafter they are dead<br \/>\nas well)<br \/>\nI will tell you<br \/>\n(all I want is something appropriate to say when people ask me how I\u2019ve been doing, how I\u2019ve been, something that won\u2019t sound false, something to say that won\u2019t mention you)<br \/>\nsomething<br \/>\nstupid<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>sense<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><i><b><\/b><\/i><span lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\n<\/span>I babble I mumble<br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\nI slip in<br \/>\nfront of a whole big Pile Of Myself<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">&amp; I speak I demonstrate:<br \/>\n<\/span>I keep Forgetting I still miss her<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\nI attest<br \/>\nher lips so soft she wakes me like a HAT she could wear<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\nI demand<br \/>\nbring us a pilotless ship<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say I plead<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">I am bound in joys<br \/>\n<\/span>that nag us to emulate Paris<br \/>\ndead in bloom;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">with sighing<br \/>\nand then, arbitrarily<br \/>\nI yearn<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">I pray I implore<br \/>\n<\/span>whom heedest our desires?<br \/>\nspoken<br \/>\nas the black<br \/>\nsweet eruptive flower in exquisite warmth<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">I shout<br \/>\n<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">I give voice to thick plate glass<br \/>\n<\/span>I sound and hum<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">through to state<br \/>\n<\/span>a sound between soulless and solace<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I chant I bleat<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">morning\/slash\/birdsong<br \/>\n<\/span>like a scratched skipping<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">record dripping<br \/>\n<\/span>millefiori false splendor<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">I entreat<br \/>\n<\/span>smother me in blankets of sense<br \/>\nstun me with reasonable blindness<br \/>\nride me on the back of this slipped spidered goal<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I say<br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-US\">I speak<br \/>\n<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">I assert<br \/>\n<\/span>writhing behind this precise curtain of meat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISBN: 9780998458069<br \/>\n48 pages<br \/>\nTrade\/perfect bound<br \/>\nChapbook<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #0263d3;\">By Gary Jacobelly<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4726,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[292],"product_tag":[442,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-4725","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_tag-gary-jacobelly","8":"product_tag-lummox-press","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lummoxpress.com\/lc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}