{"id":3986,"date":"2013-07-21T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2013-07-21T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:00:15","slug":"solipsism-yvette-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/07\/21\/solipsism-yvette-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Solipsism || Yvette Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Solipsism<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nYou mommy makes you lunch like you don\u2019t eat lunch<br \/>\nat college. Like you are pallid and living off oyster crackers.<br \/>\nLike beer is an exfoliant. I think it is! It washes your hair<br \/>\nif you bring it from a party and wash it straight away.<br \/>\nThis is how women are resourceful. They can smell like<br \/>\na bar and attract men who like to pay entrance fees. Often,<br \/>\nwomen do not pay at the door. This is their edge. They can<br \/>\nget themselves drunk and dance together on the floor<br \/>\nwith their backs against each other advertising Heineken.<br \/>\nThey can wear halters and strapless and their heels<br \/>\nare sensible like loafers. They can get them covered in beer.<br \/>\nIt won\u2019t matter. It will be chic to wear your drinking shoes to class.<br \/>\nYou learn at your survey class that, in solipsism,<br \/>\nonly one\u2019s own mind exists. You can be a solipsist<br \/>\nwalking back from The House to your classes<br \/>\nand think no one saw you on your Walk of Shame.<br \/>\nNeither sex nor philosophy get you a job after college.<br \/>\nYou could major in sex. And spend all your time<br \/>\ndrinking beers, learning the tenets of beer pong.<br \/>\nYou can wear thin jersey leggings to class. That will mention<br \/>\nyour sex life to other people without having to divulge anything.<br \/>\nSome women wear leggings who are not having sex.<br \/>\nThey are making a sexy fashion statement. She wants to look like<br \/>\na girl who had sex in high school. She has too many ideas<br \/>\nabout philosophy that she cannot formulate. She\u2019s rich.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n_____________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Yvette Johnson<\/strong>&#8216;s poems can be found in<em> Octopus, eleven eleven,<br \/>\ntransfr, realPoetik<\/em> and other. She is a native Los Angelena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solipsism &nbsp; You mommy makes you lunch like you don\u2019t eat lunch at college. Like you are pallid and living off oyster crackers. Like beer is an exfoliant. I think it is! It washes your hair if you bring it from a party and wash it straight away. This is how women are resourceful. They [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}