{"id":231,"date":"2007-03-15T20:56:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chartervision.org\/archive\/231"},"modified":"2007-03-15T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T02:58:04","slug":"mobius-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/archive\/231\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobius Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note<\/strong>: This poem was written by Adrienne White, a senior at ARTech<\/a> in Northfield.<\/p>\n

I.<\/h3>\n

We’ll get to the bottom of this
\non an empty stomach,
\non an emptied day<\/p>\n

When boredom struck
\n1200 mils
\nwhen boredom
\nstruck gold,
\ngolden fabric curtains<\/p>\n

Killing time released
\nfrom the twisting of caps
\nwe’ll make a toast
\ndrinks all around–
\n“to this frightful train
\nwe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re chugging down,”
\nmouth-bound;
\nand count
\nhow much of the stuff we’ve downed,
\n1200 mils
\nnot knowing
\nwe’ve drowned<\/p>\n

and as it coats our throats
\nwith the ease
\nof trapeze strings,
\nwe make pact
\nwith brains intact<\/p>\n

everything’s signed,
\npupils contract<\/p>\n

we await impact<\/p>\n

II.<\/h3>\n

OUR PACT WITH MIRRORS–
\nstretching new bodies out
\non sultry jungle floor<\/p>\n

and your body
\nswung open like a door
\ni stepped inside
\nand your head became the floor
\nso roll out your tongue
\nas the carpet<\/p>\n

JUVENILE CROCODILE
\nSNIFF THE PAINTS
\nget high and DIE–<\/p>\n

just TWO of us — that’s all there EVER WAS<\/p>\n

MINDS YAWNING WIDE
\npeeling zombie eyes
\nin the vacancy of GAZE<\/p>\n

eyes turn in
\nto the back of her head.
\nBUT SHE’S NOT DEAD<\/p>\n

is it an escape?
\nCharged with killing pain–<\/p>\n

we’ll never cough again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: This poem was written by Adrienne White, a senior at ARTech in Northfield. I. We’ll get to the bottom of this on an empty stomach, on an emptied day When boredom struck 1200 mils when boredom struck gold, golden fabric curtains Killing time released from the twisting of caps we’ll make a toast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sdho.org\/2008\/01\/chartervision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}