Naturally, at every resurrection there\u2019s
\nat least one nonplussed and unconvinced
\nhooligan\u2014arms crossed, mumbling\u2014who dares<\/p>\n
to giggle while the crowd suckles on the tits
\nof its communal foolishness and swallow
\nwhatever milky drivel they\u2019re given. Since<\/p>\n
this celebration proves the Void, the Hollow
\nof What Comes Next, let me be the placard
\nyou\u2019re welcome to scrawl an Ex Nihilo<\/p>\n
on both sides of. And please don\u2019t treat this boneyard
\nsoiree of yours like something precious\u2014wrapped
\nin bounded tissue, I\u2019ll still not waste a shard<\/p>\n
of me to salve what comes apart on you. Corrupt,
\nyou\u2019ll call me; heartless, even. Truth is: when
\nyour organs squirm in jars somewhere in Egypt,<\/p>\n
feel free to judge. Granted, they took my brains
\nand scrambled them away, yet, here I am\u2014
\nthe strangest in the crowd, but not insane<\/p>\n
enough to buy this palm-and-donkey sham.
\nSo if no one minds, I\u2019ll pull the mirrors\u2019 stash
\nof smoke, call out the bluff holiness assumes<\/p>\n
you won\u2019t ignore: First, there\u2019s dirt, then the hush.<\/p>\n
Naturally, at every resurrection there\u2019s at least one nonplussed and unconvinced hooligan\u2014arms crossed, mumbling\u2014who dares to giggle while the crowd suckles on the tits of its communal foolishness and swallow whatever milky drivel they\u2019re given. Since this celebration proves the Void, the Hollow of What Comes Next, let me be the placard you\u2019re welcome to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":[14],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-17R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10300,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}