{"id":58,"date":"1984-07-25T21:03:56","date_gmt":"1984-07-26T04:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:17:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:17:29","slug":"cork-of-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1984\/07\/25\/cork-of-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork of Flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cork of flesh<br \/>\nHolding back from within,<br \/>\nIt wallows and rises<br \/>\n(The odor of guilt)<br \/>\nReminding too strongly<br \/>\nAs a flame and a flame<br \/>\nEngulf the cork,<br \/>\nThe cork of flesh.<br \/>\nDecaying away;<br \/>\nAnd it seethes and<br \/>\nI loathe and it feels<br \/>\nAs I move<br \/>\nLike a separate mass.<\/p>\n<p>It is not I,<br \/>\nBut it is mine:<br \/>\nThis cork of flesh &#8211;<br \/>\nMy cork of flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Scheming minds,<br \/>\nSeeming ties<br \/>\nOnly for your cork of flesh:<br \/>\nFor false comfort<br \/>\nWhich will last<br \/>\nA short time;<br \/>\nNot for you,<br \/>\nOr for another.<br \/>\nWhy not be humbled?<br \/>\nBe so wise<br \/>\nAll your lives<br \/>\nFor another life.<\/p>\n<p>It is not I,<br \/>\nBut it is mine.<br \/>\nNo cork of flesh;<br \/>\nYour cork of flesh!<\/p>\n<p>For your comfort in the future<br \/>\nNow&#8217;s the time<br \/>\nTo use your cork of flesh<br \/>\nFor another, before the<br \/>\nFlame and the flame<br \/>\nEngulf the cork!<br \/>\nThe cork of flesh!<br \/>\nBottling the you:<br \/>\nDecaying away;<br \/>\nAnd it seethes and<br \/>\nI loathe and it feels<br \/>\nAs I move<br \/>\nLike a separate mass!<\/p>\n<p>It is not I &#8211;<br \/>\nBut it is mine.<br \/>\nThis cork of flesh:<br \/>\nMy cork of flesh.<br \/>\nThe corks of flesh<br \/>\nIn which we hide . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cork of flesh<br \/> Holding back from within,<br \/> It wallows and rises<br \/> (The odor of guilt)<br \/> Reminding too strongly<br \/> As a flame and a flame<br \/> Engulf the cork,<br \/> The cork of flesh.<br \/> Decaying away;<br \/> And it seethes and<br \/> I loathe and it feels<br \/> As I move<br \/> Like a separate [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}