{"id":1655,"date":"2013-01-16T17:29:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2013-01-16T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:29:19","slug":"chrismas-night-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2013\/01\/16\/chrismas-night-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrismas Night, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHungry enough to eat freezerburn I call you to<br \/>\nstipulate a rosary made of cheese for some of your punishments,<br \/>\na crucifix made of magic for your forgiveness, and a<br \/>\nchurch made of cash cash money for your whoring vanities.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing shall remain of visions created by<br \/>\nconspicuous gold necklaces worn by trashy conversations,<br \/>\nbulleted lives tromping dismal treadmills of<br \/>\ninteractive lies pooled among deserted zoos and<br \/>\nchildless playgrounds. I endeavor to obscure your<br \/>\ndramatic divination with stranded cries for angry nights,<br \/>\ncramming allusions about tourist attractions and lollypop phalluses into<br \/>\nelectronic communications that become tangled and sore.<\/p>\n<p>Chances for your humbled disaster vibrate with<br \/>\nforgotten pop music operas, syncopate with the<br \/>\nvoluble bone chewers you see in the reflection of your eyeglasses,<br \/>\nin the corner of your retina, a pot-induced calamity from<br \/>\npanic-filled tirades, littered with clich\u00e9s and<br \/>\npublic thunder toiling in urgent oblivion where<br \/>\nChristmas dinners of food truck leftovers coat the<br \/>\nplunder of your mouth, the cynical burn of<br \/>\nexotropic disconnect quivering on the<br \/>\ndrainhole of a candy cane&#8217;s curl.<\/p>\n<p>You wander streets and parking lots, sensing where<br \/>\nearth&#8217;s ribs, formed millions of centuries past, now raise pavement,<br \/>\nforcing you to labor through everyday tediums with memories of<br \/>\npoised moments on childhood&#8217;s playgrounds, in the<br \/>\nlocker rooms, moments of articulation that would have<br \/>\nbarfed you into public humiliation at a prodigious age if<br \/>\nonly you were not alone.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"764\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sorabji.com\/pictures\/53549-2\/14.jpg?resize=450%2C764\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungry enough to eat freezerburn I call you to stipulate a rosary made of cheese for some of your punishments, a crucifix made of magic for your forgiveness, and a church made of cash cash money for your whoring vanities. Nothing shall remain of visions created by conspicuous gold necklaces worn by trashy conversations, bulleted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-qH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}