{"id":77,"date":"2003-01-01T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/?p=3"},"modified":"2003-01-01T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2003-01-01T00:00:09","slug":"bennett-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryunderground.org\/juicepress\/2003\/01\/01\/bennett-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not A Forwarded Message by John Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS IS NOT A FORWARDED MESSAGE!<\/span>
\n THIS BUD’S FOR YOU!
\n<\/span>
\nTerrorism and war, tuning everyone in to the same wavelength. When
\nthe volume gets turned up, all that’s there is static.<\/p>\n

***************************************<\/p>\n

THE BEGINNING & THE END<\/p>\n

I’m procrastinating. Putzing around. Sucking suds and cigarettes —
\nthe bath water of a woman I once loved gone cold and gray; cancerous
\ntidings from Virginia … I drink it in. What the fuck — why not?<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

I spit on realism. I piss on it from a considerable height. I lay in
\nambush for the problem solvers of the world. Everywhere I turn, hidden
\nagendas. Am I exempt from the draft? I should be, what with this array
\nof prostheses and the nightmares storming through the canyons of my
\nskull.<\/p>\n

What’s left after we die is all that was there to begin with.<\/p>\n

–John Bennett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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