I wish I bit you when you kissed my nose
\nat the capsule hatch \/ sealed my world
\nfrom the world & left me sitting 3 long
\ndays on the launch pad flat \/ bare belly
\ntrellised with sensors \/ coat alcohol-
\nrubbed \/ & I mean really chomp you \/
\ngive you a face made for radio \/ the way
\nI nipped the soldier\u2019s gloved palm on
\nthe Moscow street \/ (that was low-down
\nyou know) \/ (putting the good salami
\nbefore the starving stray \/ catch-all
\nhaloing round \/ & after \/
\nnothing but gel rations \/ the centrifuge \/
\nthe blood test \/ but it wasn\u2019t all bad \/
\n& that\u2019s what made it worse \/ why
\never be tender \/ why the trip home
\nto see the children \/ the yard \/ I had never
\nseen a yard \/ why the scratch beneath
\nthe chin \/ & I think that is why I regret you
\nmost \/ not for fire \/ heat \/ rocket-death \/
\nbut the good life\u2019s silver \/ a taste of what
\na mutt can get in this country \/ & still \/
\nwill you admit it \/ you\u2019d have traded places
\nin an instant \/ to know what is felt
\nthrough rumbling steel & wire \/ what
\nit means to hold your breath & let it go on
\nthe other side of heaven \/ because I will
\nnot tell you \/ because you made me \/
\n& I have been unmade \/ the first \/
\nthe only \/ the dog doggoned.<\/p>\n
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I wish I bit you when you kissed my nose at the capsule hatch \/ sealed my world from the world & left me sitting 3 long days on the launch pad flat \/ bare belly trellised with sensors \/ coat alcohol- rubbed \/ & I mean really chomp you \/ give you a face […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2272,"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":[74],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-laika","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974"}],"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\/2272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17975,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions\/17975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}