{"id":41,"date":"2007-10-12T02:07:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2007-10-28T23:44:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T05:44:45","slug":"a-poem-451-degrees-fahrenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"A poem: 451 Degrees Fahrenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>This lab is hot, my mind<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>is on fire in the front of the rays.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>I know i wont be able to sleep<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>after im done.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The smoke wafts<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>like incense in a temple <\/span>and i want <\/span><\/span><\/span>to wave it onto myself, I want<\/span><\/span><\/span>to quaff the holy water<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>in the\u00a0ersatz well at the bottom of the church.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Keep these hands busy in front of me;<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>they’ll be strapped to the handle bars<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>of a moving bike<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>soon. There won’t be a place<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>to take a hot shower or\u00a0a pen<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>to stick the contents of my mind to a page.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>There wont be me, <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>just the tumbling wind<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and the petrified plastic bags,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and the billowing clothes hanging to dry,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>and the hot hot muscles <\/span>moving <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0like a marionette, <\/span>masterminded <\/span><\/p>\n

by mercurial adrenaline<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>that might quit the minute a car cuts <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>my impetus. <\/span>Got to stick with the torque,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>the gyrating wheels, <\/span><\/p>\n

man\u2019s <\/span>greatest creation, next to high heels,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>which I left on the floor next to a silent pile of refuse<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>waiting patiently to be swept outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Ive forgotten myself in this inimical heat,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>that makes my head go light and flaccid,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>spinning like the asphalt <\/span>rolling rolling by<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>beneath my wheels,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>becoming one with wheels, slicing<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

the space between pebbles and particles,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and frames of references in paintings:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>mountains and skies and flapping hawks<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and greens with reds, and spots and stripes,<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and shadows with shapes, and endless<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>contiguous courtyards with faces <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>that match and mismatch and melt.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The faster i ride the hotter i get.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>My mind steams out of control.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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