{"id":3782,"date":"2013-04-30T02:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2013-04-30T02:16:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T02:16:31","slug":"pig-city-subway-by-sean-ulman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/04\/30\/pig-city-subway-by-sean-ulman\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig City Subway by Sean Ulman w\/ image by Paul Bruns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPig City Subway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slop.\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0scarce.
\nGrazing grows
\nunderground.
\nPiggy-backed
\npigs
\nscarf seatback foam.
\nChairs: toilet&trough.<\/p>\n

Tattered ad: miss piggy saddled on elfin hermit crab,
\n\u201cdeflated w\/ inflation, hop the crustacean caboose\u201d\u00a0\u00a0puke-perfumed,\u00a0\u00a0licked.
\nLocked locomotives root \u2193 raunchy routes,
\nlunge off jagged lard-greased rails,
\nplunge n worm \u2193 polluted wells, ram doors of
\nun-looted stalls: sweet n sour centipedes, moth broths, butterfly-flayed butterflies.<\/p>\n

Tooth n hoof scraps pace foul final animal race\u2019s races to gulp plopped dung
\nplump ripe-plum-fresh,
\nswill shed blood by-products.<\/p>\n

Next stop grisly scrapyard razed-grazed to gristle.
\nRib & jaw fossil trestles, pig bone drip castles,
\nrote motes clogged w\/ innards n gizzards, ties n rails afloat n bloated.
\nInhale charred knuckle rind Blizzards\u00ae on rust boat rides, lard sails, snout floaties.
\nFares traded for goes at carnivore carnival games<\/p>\n

(uncoiling curly fried tails, telling cryptic tales of frozen rations sepulcher, king of the pig pile, candied ham pie eating contests – contestants don pork pie hats).<\/p>\n

Whilst such scarred scourge be purged?<\/p>\n

Were refurbished frescoes of porky pulchritude facsimiles?<\/p>\n

Sows farrow fallow farrows, litter fish-guts-gutted gutters.<\/p>\n

Gates slime-sealed.
\nPenned porks relegated to purgatory glory.<\/p>\n

Swine spill slouch squeal stomp romp into arcade of pitted station pit.
\nRunts impaled on bent rails.
\nTrampled busted trams acid-rain rusted.
\nImposter conductor conducts gluttony lessons: accelerated masticating;
\nhow to bash tubby piggy banks so hock rock-candy contents spill\u2193 gnashing mouths sleekly.
\nSwitch
\ntracks
\nswitches stuck on collision
\nunder sewage silos.<\/p>\n

Tooth-hollowed hoof un-hallowed ground.
\nIt\u2019s eat or be eaten, never ceding seeding poison pellets.<\/p>\n

Rational to suspect ursine rationed to source end plague?<\/p>\n

Pollution metropolis grappling refuge in fog-spawned fugues.<\/p>\n

Was\/is\/will: futile.<\/p>\n

_____________________________
\nSean Ulman<\/strong>, worder birder baller server, is writing a novel about Seward Alaska and Art. “Pig City Subway” is a piece from his comic book side project, “Forest City Tilt” featuring an elf poet protagonist. Other poems from that project have been published at Everyday Genius, Mud Luscious, Clutching at Straws and 13 Myna Birds. sean-ulman.tumblr.com
\n*
\nPaul Bruns<\/strong> is a freelance graphic and web designer located in Cambridge MA. Paul enjoys learning about all things art, illustration and design, and has a passion for creating elegant user experiences on the web. He can be found online at http:\/\/paulbruns.com. Paul lives with his girlfriend Ashlee in the heart of Harvard Square.<\/p>\n

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Pig City Subway Slop.\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0scarce. Grazing grows underground. Piggy-backed pigs scarf seatback foam. Chairs: toilet&trough. Tattered ad: miss piggy saddled on elfin hermit crab, \u201cdeflated w\/ inflation, hop the crustacean caboose\u201d\u00a0\u00a0puke-perfumed,\u00a0\u00a0licked. Locked locomotives root \u2193 raunchy routes, lunge off jagged lard-greased rails, plunge n worm \u2193 polluted wells, ram doors of un-looted stalls: sweet n sour […]<\/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":[43,78,82,100,109],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things","tag-image","tag-paul-bruns","tag-pig-city","tag-sean-ulman","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","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=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}