{"id":3691,"date":"2013-03-12T02:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2013-03-12T02:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T02:23:59","slug":"pornography-by-frederic-levesque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/03\/12\/pornography-by-frederic-levesque\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornography by Frederic Levesque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pornography<\/strong>
\n 
\n 
\nLike in every torture chamber
\nYou have to wonder
\nHow you got there. Every
\nPeripatetic resident of
\nThis greenbrown world
\nKnows that
\n 
\nEven in a classic car
\nDriving through painted
\nBackdrops of artful sunsets
\nAnd bad apple summers
\nYou have to look back
\nAt the pillars of salt
\nAt the empty bottles
\nBehind
\nSome in the sea, some in the corners
\n 
\nSometimes it\u2019s just like
\nPiercing your skin
\nWith bright colored push-pins
\nAs if to say
\nThere and there and there
\nAnd unfortunately
\nWhy and why and why
\n 
\n(some invisible hand is turning the wheel
\n                is tightening the chains)
\n 
\nSome dead poet said
\nA shoestring breaking
\nDrives you to madness
\nNot war
\nNot disease
\nNot poverty
\nNot the torture
\nThe shoestring snapping
\nThe shoestring theory of the universe
\n 
\nAt any crossroad you have to
\nDig deep and ask the devil
\nThe big hard question
\n\u201cDid I do this or did you?\u201d
\nbut never ask why
\nif you take anything from this
\n                it\u2019s gotta be that
\n 
\nWhen you wake up seemingly
\nFrom the pure black
\nAnd all signs lead to a dirty blonde
\nWith shoulder blades moving like a vulture
\nWhose intentions to cut her wrist before breakfast
\nSink
\nYou have no answers for anyone
\nSo you replay it
\nMoans like studio recording
\nCut action cut
\nFade out
\nAnd then politely try to say goodbye
\nBut you have no voice
\nSo you smile and wave
\nBurn the sheets, sit inside and pray
\n 
\ncompress this scene inside yourself
\nAnd lock it twice
\n 
\nGather up a million
\nBeautiful people
\nDress them in pearls
\nAnd black suits
\nAnd take them to the river
\nLet them stand in it
\nLet them stop its course
\n 
\nFlood the world with them
\nAnd float away somewhere clean and crisp
\nTo rewrite the world
\n 
\nLeave nothing out this time.
\n 
\nWatch a six minute video
\nGirl on guy on girl on guy
\nAnd eat something to fight off guilt
\n 
\nTry to match the sun today
\nAnd remember it\u2019s
\nA dying star
\nShake off the presence
\nof some prior life
\n 
\nPeople are just making a living
\n 
\n 
\n__________________________________________
\nFrederic Levesque<\/strong> is originally from Montreal, Canada but now lives in Key West, FL, god-knows-not-why. He’s been published in Stillpoint<\/em> and The Stray Dog Almanac<\/em>. He doesn’t like writing about himself (in the third person that is).
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Pornography     Like in every torture chamber You have to wonder How you got there. Every Peripatetic resident of This greenbrown world Knows that   Even in a classic car Driving through painted Backdrops of artful sunsets And bad apple summers You have to look back At the pillars of salt At the empty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}