{"id":5153,"date":"2014-12-07T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2014-12-07T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T02:02:11","slug":"being-paid-to-live-the-dunes-corey-wakeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2014\/12\/07\/being-paid-to-live-the-dunes-corey-wakeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Paid to Live, the Dunes || Corey Wakeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"_Toc393276217\"><\/a><strong>Being Paid to Live, the Dunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are ready for the end of this world because<\/p>\n<p>you are paid, and the apartment is good.<\/p>\n<p>If the earthquake separates the head from<\/p>\n<p>the plexus, finish your lamb casserole,<\/p>\n<p>you are meat and you are juice,<\/p>\n<p>my yoghurt tarantellas<\/p>\n<p>in an array of elaborate maquettes<\/p>\n<p>of the city and its outer suburbs,<\/p>\n<p>all the way to the hills.<\/p>\n<p>Not fiercely but informatively<\/p>\n<p>disembodied in capacity to<\/p>\n<p>see the end miniature.<\/p>\n<p>It is hotter than it was,<\/p>\n<p>why clairvoyance<\/p>\n<p>buoys in my efforts to get to you,<\/p>\n<p>buoys in its treachery of you, because all<\/p>\n<p>places not there are awful. That is what I<\/p>\n<p>have learnt in this life, not the others,<\/p>\n<p>that when you are not there<\/p>\n<p>it is awful, and when you are there<\/p>\n<p>it is good. How is the family money,<\/p>\n<p>can you buy a new nominal pedestal<\/p>\n<p>by which to be seen again by the people<\/p>\n<p>surrounding? No, I don\u2019t know the names<\/p>\n<p>of the local prelates who confirm<\/p>\n<p>the honorary chair for the rocket ship<\/p>\n<p>out, just the drug dealers for a delicious peace<\/p>\n<p>time which will brace the horde.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only your stupid fantasy that the dunes<\/p>\n<p>are sex, that the sand trap is Psyche.<\/p>\n<p>No, the trap is the thugs hired<\/p>\n<p>to break up the local groundswell union,<\/p>\n<p>its cities and cooperative housing,<\/p>\n<p>marinated in shadow odours of Dad.<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corey Wakeling<\/strong> lives in Melbourne. He is the author of chapbook <em>Gargantuan Terrier, Buggy or Dinghy<\/em> (Vagabond Press, 2012) and <em>Goad Omen<\/em>(Giramondo, 2013). With Jeremy Balius, Corey co-edited <em>Outcrop: radical Australian poetry of land <\/em>(Black Rider Press, 2013). He is reviews editor of poetry journal <em>Rabbit<\/em>, and interviews editor of <em>Cordite<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being Paid to Live, the Dunes &nbsp; &nbsp; You are ready for the end of this world because you are paid, and the apartment is good. If the earthquake separates the head from the plexus, finish your lamb casserole, you are meat and you are juice, my yoghurt tarantellas in an array of elaborate maquettes [&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-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}