{"id":13523,"date":"2017-04-05T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2017-04-05T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:29:37","slug":"in-the-netflix-trailer-obama-says-i-dont-fit-in-anywhere-while-anthony-hamilton-pulls-a-burning-city-out-of-his-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13523","title":{"rendered":"In the Netflix Trailer Obama Says \u201cI Don\u2019t Fit in Anywhere\u201d While Anthony Hamilton Pulls a Burning City Out of His Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the song is not about anything<br \/>\nin particular \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 just melody and wound<br \/>\npain is true enough for a man to pass<br \/>\nfor a whole country \u00a0 \u00a0 and he is young<br \/>\nand named Barry then \u00a0 \u00a0 and I think of<br \/>\nhow my parents flinch sometimes when<br \/>\nI say my name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 how it sits opaque<br \/>\nas a kidney stone\u00a0\u00a0 jagged sugars<br \/>\na slow waltz with what is forbidden<br \/>\nBarry dances with white girls and glances<br \/>\nuncomfortably with all the Black boys<br \/>\nand we all know the white girl is a phase<br \/>\na counterbalance to the basketball<br \/>\nwhich is either a very obtuse Atlas reference<br \/>\nor a reminder that Barry does Black stuff too<br \/>\nand I used to think wherever a white girl<br \/>\ncould see me is where I was from<br \/>\nI did not say Love<br \/>\nI did say my name was David which is not untrue<br \/>\nand the song is throbbing by now<br \/>\n<em>MySoulIsOnFireMySoulIsOnFireMySoulIsOnFire<br \/>\n<\/em>David dances near the white girls and plays basketball<br \/>\nDavid hasn\u2019t sung since the last white girl he wanted<br \/>\nDavid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 body of static \u00a0 \u00a0the electric glazing the TV<br \/>\nclingy and inconvenient down to the touch<br \/>\nthe song is winding down now<br \/>\nscabbing over into an exhausted piano<br \/>\nBarry smokes a cigarette\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 David was never alive<br \/>\nAnthony Hamilton reaches into the back of his mouth<br \/>\npries the gristle of a repossessed house from between<br \/>\ntwo molars and it is dark and neighbored with callouses<br \/>\nasks \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>Is this where you\u2019re from?<br \/>\n<\/em>Barry says \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>we are Americans<br \/>\n<\/em>I say \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>yes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13494\">Julian Randall<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the song is not about anything in particular \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 just melody and wound pain is true enough for a man to pass for a whole country \u00a0 \u00a0 and he is young and named Barry then \u00a0 \u00a0 and I think of how my parents flinch sometimes when I say my name\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&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":[52],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3w7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523"}],"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=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13550,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}