{"id":253746,"date":"2023-01-14T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=253746"},"modified":"2023-01-14T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T16:31:58","slug":"eyes-fastened-with-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/01\/14\/eyes-fastened-with-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Fastened With Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Charles Simic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found this one via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welcometohellworld.com\/how-much-death-works\" target=\"_blank\">a recent edition of<\/a> Luke O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s excellent newsletter <em>Welcome to Hell World<\/em>, which you should all subscribe to. This isn&#8217;t the whole poem, just the part I liked the most:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Death,<br>Meanwhile, in a strange<br>Part of town looking for<br>Someone with a bad cough,<br>But the address somehow wrong,<br>Even death can&#8217;t figure it out<br>Among all the locked doors&#8230;<br>And the rain beginning to fall.<br>Long windy night ahead.<br>Death with not even a newspaper<br>To cover his head, not even<br>A dime to call the one pining away,<br>Undressing slowly, sleepily,<br>And stretching naked<br>On death&#8217;s side of the bed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Simic Found this one via a recent edition of Luke O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s excellent newsletter Welcome to Hell World, which you should all subscribe to. This isn&#8217;t the whole poem, just the part I liked the most: Death,Meanwhile, in a strangePart of town looking forSomeone with a bad cough,But the address somehow wrong,Even death can&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/01\/14\/eyes-fastened-with-pins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eyes Fastened With Pins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}