{"id":453,"date":"2012-10-23T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=453"},"modified":"2012-10-23T02:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:00:28","slug":"2-poems-by-jordan-soyka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2012\/10\/23\/2-poems-by-jordan-soyka\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Poems by Jordan Soyka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This Is Not A Complete List Of Side Effects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hell is a good excuse for a ladder. goes nowhere. the narrative. depersonalization. just a little pile of fingernails. under your bed, a curve passing through all these points. anorgasmia. pin it down. dream abnormalities.<\/p>\n<p>collapse makes sense. a voice is calling behind me. a hole. with a chandelier in it. feeling warm. drudgery. another sentence. dysphasia. the vanishing point shows more. i don\u2019t know full remission (e.g. depression disappears in spring).<\/p>\n<p>night\u2019s little engines. wrung out. suicidal ideation. ink on my hands. these words can be extinguished with other words. mice nibble watchbands. avoidance. a finite number of singular statements. decreased salivation. paresthesia.<\/p>\n<p>everything is ready now. talkativeness. muscular cramps. but beautiful. intrusive and inappropriate. excessive and unreasonable. the face displayed no discernible euphoria. no way out. vigilance and scanning.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Ellipses <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>do it or i\u2019ll think something terrible opened raw scabbed and picked again<br \/>\npink red<br \/>\nbrown pink <\/p>\n<p>only lies create worlds<br \/>\nbeginning with stone &#038; somewhere hung above &#038; somewhere glittering<br \/>\nlaughing laughing breathing 24 hr help line<\/p>\n<p>maybe i was there maybe suffered<br \/>\nfingered open maybe peeled maybe tongued<br \/>\ndown past seeing up<br \/>\nrendering hath severed wonder<br \/>\nfilled in filled out and bulging<\/p>\n<p>both a space and a collision<\/p>\n<p>only if it\u2019s safe only if it\u2019s safe counting checking i\u2019ve hit bone<br \/>\ncounting checking i\u2019ve hit bone<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Jordan Soyka<\/strong> lives in New Orleans, where he creates rituals and paints his toenails. His work has been published in GlitterPony, > kill author, La Petite Zine, Cave Wall, and The Quarterly Conversation, and is forthcoming in Horse Less Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is Not A Complete List Of Side Effects hell is a good excuse for a ladder. goes nowhere. the narrative. depersonalization. just a little pile of fingernails. under your bed, a curve passing through all these points. anorgasmia. pin it down. dream abnormalities. collapse makes sense. a voice is calling behind me. a hole. [&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":[52,67,85],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things","tag-jordan-soyka","tag-new-orleans","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}