{"id":13176,"date":"2016-12-15T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13176"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:49:03","slug":"junk-mail-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13176","title":{"rendered":"Junk Mail Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We do not want you\u00a0to ever\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>get married\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 you cannot sleep\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>with a hundred different people \u00a0 each year\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>if you are married<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 after the wedding<br \/>\nwe drove across the jagged Alleghenies<\/p>\n<p>right into the sun \u00a0 \u00a0 we counted the fat cash<br \/>\nas if we were hungry\u00a0 \u00a0 <em>But we can make it possible\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>for you to sleep with a hundred\u00a0different people\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>this year<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the stones sharpen in our bed<br \/>\nthey push upward \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in the dark room<\/p>\n<p>they call the decision heavy<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0your heart\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>will tell you if you should get a divorce\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>or not<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but hope casts off<br \/>\nthe shoulders \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 in the right wind<br \/>\n<em>after you have the affair <\/em>the rest is sediment<\/p>\n<p>I take into my mouth \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and swallow<br \/>\n<em>An affair will let you know\u00a0if you really want\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>someone else \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>perennial you planted<br \/>\nyears ago \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>well wait\u00a0 a minute<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0<em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nhoping somehow<\/p>\n<p><em>you should meet \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 all the other men<\/em><br \/>\n<em>that are also unhappy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>for love<br \/>\nto surprise you \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>lonely wife<\/em><br \/>\nlove smiling \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 unearned<br \/>\non your bright\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stone face<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13165\">Rachel Mennies<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not want you\u00a0to ever\u00a0 get married\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 you cannot sleep\u00a0 with a hundred different people \u00a0 each year\u00a0 if you are married \u00a0 \u00a0 after the wedding we drove across the jagged Alleghenies right into the sun \u00a0 \u00a0 we counted the fat cash as if we were hungry\u00a0 \u00a0 But we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3qw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}