{"id":112,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juicepress.theliteraryunderground.net\/?p=112"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:42","slug":"morse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/morse-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard-Wired by Stephen Morse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-Wired<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;the blind bang of shoot<br \/>\nvicious mantra booming light<br \/>\nthe talking doll dies&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>tonsils of star swell wobbly in raw love<br \/>\nknow no opening or sweet closing to play<br \/>\ndice with a rabbit not wearing a glove,<br \/>\na shoe, a talking doll, a corset stay<br \/>\nthe execution, the blind bang of shoot<br \/>\nthe rag head sly doll chokes out a hoarse call<br \/>\nthat sounds in night black like a broken flute<br \/>\nhissing  the shrill songs of fear and of fall<br \/>\nred and gold memories laced with color<br \/>\nvicious naked mantras of stark white nights<br \/>\nand galloping flights, stop. stand, and smother<br \/>\nthe blind bang of shoot,  a flash bloom of light<br \/>\ninvited to sing, unable to dance<br \/>\nthe talking doll dies: bitter hard-wired chance<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Stephen Morse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-Wired &ldquo;the blind bang of shoot vicious mantra booming light the talking doll dies&rdquo; tonsils of star swell wobbly in raw love know no opening or sweet closing to play dice with a rabbit not wearing a glove, a shoe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/morse-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,61,62],"tags":[123,113,119],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16","category-stephen-morse-2003","category-stephen-morse","tag-123","tag-morse","tag-stephen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}