{"id":444,"date":"2012-10-09T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-10-09T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:00:26","slug":"graffiti-signatures-by-cody-todd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2012\/10\/09\/graffiti-signatures-by-cody-todd\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Signatures by Cody Todd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graffiti Signatures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>haiku stenciled between storefronts along Melrose Avenue: <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nSilhouettes through ice:<br \/>\nI battled Tyrannosaurs<br \/>\nfor the bronze-medaled world.   <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nTimelessness akin<br \/>\nto a Cyclops doll blinking<br \/>\nmosquitoes away. <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nWaxen effigies.<br \/>\nTake my face. Take every dime.<br \/>\nMannequin malice.  <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nCrazier than light.<br \/>\nLike water, beating itself.<br \/>\nBlack face, white face, yours? <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nBanksy One-Thousand:<br \/>\nis an original thought<br \/>\nworth mindless quotings? <\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nMural for Cody:<br \/>\nI am you; you are not me.<br \/>\nWe will meet halfway.<br \/>\n______________________<br \/>\n<strong>Cody Todd <\/strong>is the author of Graffiti Signatures (forthcoming, Main Street Rag) and lives in West Hollywood. His favorite haunt is the Formosa Cafe, where Lee Marvin is reputed to have set fire to the entire block between Willoughby and Santa Monica Blvd (aka US Route 66). You can find him pacing around the Venice boardwalk to catch his bearings at least once a month. He is also the Managing Editor &#038; co-creator of the online literary journal, The Offending Adam (<a href=\"www.theoffendingadam.com\">www.theoffendingadam.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graffiti Signatures: haiku stenciled between storefronts along Melrose Avenue: * Silhouettes through ice: I battled Tyrannosaurs for the bronze-medaled world. * Timelessness akin to a Cyclops doll blinking mosquitoes away. * Waxen effigies. Take my face. Take every dime. Mannequin malice. * Crazier than light. Like water, beating itself. Black face, white face, yours? * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[26,110],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things","tag-cody-todd","tag-the-offending-adam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}