{"id":65,"date":"2008-10-14T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-10-14T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:53:09","slug":"this-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/14\/this-code.html","title":{"rendered":"This code"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica;font-size: 35px\">\nTalk about current events.\nTalk about streetlights.\nTalk about famine.\nYHWH.\nBurdock root.\nTrout fishing.\nNothing to talk about.\nIf any proof was needed\nI find all I can write about is writing.\nWriting about writing?\n<em>Wasteful!<\/em>\nTalk about talking?\nDrink about drinking?\nShit about shitting?\nWhat can I say?\nCode excites me.\nIt perks my mind.\nI don't mean computer &quot;code&quot;\n(That is not code at all).\nI mean this.\n<em>This<\/em>.\nThis code,\nthis cipher, this\nattempt to\ntranslate the zeitgeist\nfrom its rottenness,\nto pull its perfect\npoisons from\nbeneath the\nscum\nthat separates\nwhat you see from\nwhat you get.\nI call it &quot;scum&quot; today.\nNext week:\nphlegm.\nNext month:\nSpiritual miasma.\nNext year:\nAura's rev\n(versus aura's exhaust).\nThe thin sewage of restraint,\na restless melancholy\nbeneath which sincerity sits,\nthat is my combat.\nI could sweat it out in a sauna,\nor by swimming in the ocean.\nFeet and hands pressed\nflat to the earth\nI could pass it from my system\nand into the primordial\nbackwash of our\nwasted energy.\nIt would return,\nthat scum,\nthe accumulation,\nyours wrapped in mine and\nmine soaked in\ncold memory.\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI call it &#8220;scum&#8221; today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-65","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-13","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}