{"id":968,"date":"2017-07-25T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=968"},"modified":"2017-07-25T15:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:32","slug":"poem-medusa-in-the-cistern-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;Medusa In the Cistern&#8221; (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=467962145\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=3032071990\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/godheadscope.bandcamp.com\/album\/patience\">Patience by GODHEADSCOPE<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">How long\r\ncan you hold your breath?\r\n\r\nTwo minutes?\r\nTwo thousand years?\r\n\r\nThe city sits\r\nupon your neck\u2014\r\n\r\nsnakes,\r\nso still\r\nsuspended\r\nupside-down\r\n\r\nin drinking water\u2014\r\n\r\nsaliva\r\nnow a nutrient\r\n\r\nfeeding grand machines.\r\nModern industry rushing\r\npast your memory,\r\n\r\nquaint,\r\nunthreatening\r\nfragment of nostalgia\r\nthat you are;\r\n\r\nfrozen,\r\nbeheaded\r\n\r\nas you are.<\/pre>\n<p><em>Published as lyrics for GODHEADSCOPE\u2019s <strong>Patience<\/strong> EP, 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patience by GODHEADSCOPE How long can you hold your breath? Two minutes? Two thousand years? The city sits upon your neck\u2014 snakes, so still suspended upside-down in drinking water\u2014 saliva now a nutrient feeding grand machines. Modern industry rushing past your memory, quaint, unthreatening fragment of nostalgia that you are; frozen, beheaded as you are. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem: &#8220;Medusa In the Cistern&#8221; (2011)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,14],"tags":[58,11,19],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godheadscope","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-godheadscope","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}