{"id":555,"date":"2013-01-01T02:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sporkpress.com\/poetry\/?p=555"},"modified":"2013-01-01T02:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T02:24:14","slug":"immortality-revoked-by-paul-watsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/2013\/01\/01\/immortality-revoked-by-paul-watsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortality Revoked by Paul Watsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Immortality Revoked<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI never thought he got away with much,<br \/>\nJames Wright, not between a breakdown at sixteen,<br \/>\nlikely his bipolar surfacing, then booze, that twisted crutch<br \/>\non which his chronic symptoms perched to preen<br \/>\ntheir agitated feathers, reiterated to age fifty-three,<br \/>\nwhen cancer of the tongue shut him up but good.<br \/>\nNow she busts Wright in this workshop: <em>sentimentality!<\/em><br \/>\nWhy are we reading this long-dead clown who stood<br \/>\nwitness for bugs, empathized with <em>old grasshoppers\u2026.their thighs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>are burdened<\/em>, with bitter working-stiffs who drank,<br \/>\nbrawled reflexively, finished unemployed, the eyes<br \/>\nof pasture horses he imagined lonely? They stank,<br \/>\nthose soppy poems of his, underscored the wasted words<br \/>\nand life. Those golden stones at Duffy\u2019s, merely turds.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>Paul Watsky<\/strong> won the NYU Writing Prize about 45 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immortality Revoked &nbsp; I never thought he got away with much, James Wright, not between a breakdown at sixteen, likely his bipolar surfacing, then booze, that twisted crutch on which his chronic symptoms perched to preen their agitated feathers, reiterated to age fifty-three, when cancer of the tongue shut him up but good. Now she [&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":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisissporkpress.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}