{"id":5797,"date":"2013-08-12T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2013-08-12T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T20:34:32","slug":"magazine-and-other-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/magazine-and-other-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazine and Other Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/magazine-and-other-poems\/magazine_585x585\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5896\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5896\" alt=\"Magazine_585x585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Magazine_585x585.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Magazine_585x585.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Magazine_585x585-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Magazine_585x585-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Magazine <\/i><\/p>\n<p>You open up at me<\/p>\n<p>Quotation marks drool and<\/p>\n<p>There are so many breasts.<\/p>\n<p>The Land of Oz is where Real men R<\/p>\n<p>And Price Upon Request.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heroin goddesses and latina babes,<\/p>\n<p>Hold the purse and hold the shoe and hold my frickin&#8217; face.<\/p>\n<p>Page 69 has the story but page 70 has the goods:<\/p>\n<p>Sexy little red riding hood hunting Wolfie in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stick your head under the seat to get more plastic,<\/p>\n<p>Date your stepson to get more dick,<\/p>\n<p>All these vitamins will make you sick<\/p>\n<p>Quick, do it do it honey, do it quick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gardens in winter, gardens in spring.<br \/>\nGlossy fruity pages,<\/p>\n<p>Sparkling young things.<\/p>\n<p>Ah reality what is this machine:<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful, the perverse\u2026the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Francis Bacon Tribute<\/i><\/p>\n<p>All your teeth are<\/p>\n<p>Reassembled:<\/p>\n<p>Rearranged, the colors<\/p>\n<p>Tremble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DC fountains outside sparkle.<\/p>\n<p>Inner maroon and dark<\/p>\n<p>Black drips,<\/p>\n<p>Twisted oceans,<\/p>\n<p>Beds as ships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nudes melting on their seats,<\/p>\n<p>Figures in landscapes,<\/p>\n<p>Figures with meat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>March 22 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Places in my memory<\/p>\n<p>Made holy by<\/p>\n<p>Your step.<\/p>\n<p>You shine a yellow light<\/p>\n<p>In my perpetual ever night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you know your silhouette<\/p>\n<p>Stretched across the garden sky?<\/p>\n<p>All the flowers turned<\/p>\n<p>To watch you walk on by.<br \/>\nYou didn\u2019t know<\/p>\n<p>Your hot brown voice<\/p>\n<p>Could reach me through the years;<\/p>\n<p>All my ego did not conquer<\/p>\n<p>Basest thoughts and fears.<br \/>\nTony you will never know<\/p>\n<p>How much I loved you then,<\/p>\n<p>Our youth lasting until the dawn:<\/p>\n<p>Stolen kisses,<\/p>\n<p>Hot tub lawns,<\/p>\n<p>Blood down Hondas\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Your eyes so bleak.<\/p>\n<p>And all your strength<\/p>\n<p>Turned me weak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div>Sara Sass is originally from Philly, 23, and lives in DC.<\/div>\n<div>She likes when sentences start and end on time (preferably in rhyme);<\/div>\n<div>Elephants, mountains, and Nabokov,<\/div>\n<div>Biomedical surgeries and hardcore rock.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magazine<\/p>\n<p>You open up at me<\/p>\n<p>Quotation marks drool and<\/p>\n<p>There are so many breasts.<\/p>\n<p>The Land of Oz is where Real men R<\/p>\n<p>And Price Upon Request.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5901,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}