{"id":982,"date":"2017-07-25T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T18:03:19","slug":"poem-the-passenger-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;The Passenger&#8221; (2010\/2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2764872107\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=2417522073\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewsrosin.bandcamp.com\/album\/singing-is-contagious\">Singing Is Contagious by Matthew S. Rosin<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=556392528\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=1004699566\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/godheadscope.bandcamp.com\/album\/before-the-turn\">Before the Turn by Cindervoice<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">Hatred is a dead body\nhandcuffed to my wrist.\nI drag it behind me,\nuphill and down.\n\nThe face which smears\nover rocks and concrete\nis the same as the one\nI see in the mirror.\n\nThe fingers which cut\ngrooves into the soil\nbear my fingerprints;\nleave their traces.\n\nThe wake I trail behind me\nslowly ceases to be red.\nThe passenger sheds his skin.\nI grow still more hollow.\n\nBlank features pass away\nas my face grows ever harder.\nMy back curves from the weight;\nthe spine is bleached by sun.\n\nBy the time the bones remaining\ndetach and fall away,\n\nthere will be nothing left;\n\nnothing left to save;\n\nbut an empty shell\ndragging empty handcuffs\nbehind.<\/pre>\n<p><em>First published as lyrics for Cindervoice\u2019s <strong>Before the Turn<\/strong> LP (2010). \/ Republished as lyrics for Matthew S. Rosin&#8217;s <strong>Singing Is Contagious<\/strong> EP (2020).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing Is Contagious by Matthew S. Rosin Before the Turn by Cindervoice Hatred is a dead body handcuffed to my wrist. I drag it behind me, uphill and down. The face which smears over rocks and concrete is the same as the one I see in the mirror. The fingers which cut grooves into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem: &#8220;The Passenger&#8221; (2010\/2020)<\/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":[59,14],"tags":[60,11,19],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cindervoice","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-cindervoice","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}