{"id":5793,"date":"2012-12-01T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=5793"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T01:17:20","slug":"little-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/5793","title":{"rendered":"Little Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> \u2013 after Elizabeth Bishop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Think of the anus opening slowly, suddenly<br \/>\nlike a dark orchid, like a dog\u2019s colossal yawn,<br \/>\nthe perpetual grave.<\/p>\n<p>Think how they must look now: nubile bodies<br \/>\nlying by the empty pool outside your window,<br \/>\nablute with melanin.<\/p>\n<p>And occasionally, you will rub your stiff cock,<br \/>\nas if polishing a cedar balustrade. Your balls<br \/>\nare a locus of nausea.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the bathroom, its many excrements \u2013<br \/>\npiss and shit, blood and cum, etc. And you:<br \/>\nan I with the abject.<\/p>\n<p>The shower drain is stuck or broken. Oyster-<br \/>\nstained grout sutures the room of your losing.<br \/>\nYou will still resemble<\/p>\n<p>yourself like an old animal. You cannot write<br \/>\nabout the body because you worship the body.<br \/>\nAsk what happens to you.<\/p>\n<p>Think of the matchstick striking a phosphorous<br \/>\nbox-side. How it burns and fades. You will be<br \/>\ndead far longer than living.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/6046\">Michael Marberry<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 after Elizabeth Bishop Think of the anus opening slowly, suddenly like a dark orchid, like a dog\u2019s colossal yawn, the perpetual grave. Think how they must look now: nubile bodies lying by the empty pool outside your window, ablute with melanin. And occasionally, you will rub your stiff cock, as if polishing a cedar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-1vr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793"}],"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=5793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5793\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}