{"id":3757,"date":"2013-04-02T01:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2013-04-02T01:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:53:22","slug":"bro-cleanup-on-aisle-five-by-nikki-wallschlaeger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/04\/02\/bro-cleanup-on-aisle-five-by-nikki-wallschlaeger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bro Cleanup on Aisle Five by Nikki Wallschlaeger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bro Cleanup on Aisle Five <\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nUsually I won\u2019t stand for it. Common dialogue,<br \/>\nhow to make your man squirm, his frozen spots,<br \/>\nlow-fat smoothies designed for non sequitur<br \/>\naphrodisiacs. Immature weight scale goals.<br \/>\nBut you, I am left at the beginning somehow.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou inspire, with your face, all my enlightened<br \/>\nphilosophies dried into an arrogant burn, like<br \/>\naged nutmeg. The rope that I picked up because<br \/>\ngym class was required &#038; now I speak fluent<br \/>\nradical woman of color\/white over-achiever,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nmy little theories wearing syllabus aprons outside<br \/>\nthe classroom where I hand out scones far removed<br \/>\nfrom anything Cixous. (I sound like such a snob<br \/>\nright now. lyrical slumming starts her shift.)<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know when sideways starts to become<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\na Pinocchio hot topic on a footnote for a woman\u2019s<br \/>\nshow, when I become a real boy through lying:<br \/>\nCan I remember how to craft slimsy second form<br \/>\nMicromancy fans to avoid reading your telemetry,<br \/>\nOr is winter the season to wax my cherry zymotics?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn your case, I know nothing. Pop quizzes over the<br \/>\nwarming table, my eyes find pink &#038; take cover<br \/>\nbecause mother says mashed potatoes shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nbe cooked by rabbits. Of course I\u2019m educing the<br \/>\nplanet. I\u2019ve been raised on three opposite knees,<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n trained to follow the carrot. You\u2019re my empty<br \/>\n collections basket in July, a moving telecommute,<br \/>\nthe glass, the hurry, a language phrenic in<br \/>\ncrash-test. Call me sometime. The bathroom\u2019s<br \/>\nagnostic: two women shaming us at table seven.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n___________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Nikki Wallschlaeger <\/strong>is the author of one chapbook, Head Theatre ( 2007) which etched itself out of her palms unexpectedly. Her hands continue to talk, which is why she writes. Publications include Esque, The Smoking Poet, Word Riot, Pirene\u2019s Fountain, Burdock, DecomP , and others. She is working on her next chapbook, \u201cI Would Be the Happiest Bird,\u201d and also a full-length manuscript of poems. She also helps run a children\u2019s reading group at Peoples Books Cooperative located in the Riverwest neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro Cleanup on Aisle Five &nbsp; &nbsp; Usually I won\u2019t stand for it. Common dialogue, how to make your man squirm, his frozen spots, low-fat smoothies designed for non sequitur aphrodisiacs. Immature weight scale goals. But you, I am left at the beginning somehow. &nbsp; You inspire, with your face, all my enlightened philosophies dried [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,23,36,41,70,102],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things","tag-bro-cleanup","tag-chapbook","tag-esque","tag-head-theatre","tag-nikki-wallschlaeger","tag-smoking-poet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","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=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}