(Inspired by Richard Brautigan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was inspired to write a poem about\nher bare midriff, although he’d never caressed nor seen it. The idea\nwas to imagine this unknown bedrock Valley of Pleasure and become its\nexplorer and cartographer. Lofty stuff for a bare midriff, surely,\nbut poets must occasionally take these flights of fancy. Hey, better\na bare midriff poem than a superfluous anti-war poem! They never work\nout and always end up turgid and preachy, (except that one by William\nEverson and the aircraft carrier). Nothing turgid and preachy in a\nbare midriff poem. A poet can even use a color like apricot and\npretend freckles around the bellybutton contain a secret message or\nan uncharted constellation. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She caught wind of his project and\nwrote him that she didn’t have a bare midriff\u2014she had a beer gut!\nWhat? The murderer of literature! <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The poet thought: could he write a poem\nabout a soft Mountain Range of Pleasure rather than the valley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why not? He’d be sure to mention that\nrain erodes all mountains and all mountains eventually end up in the\nocean. She might like that. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Inspired by Richard Brautigan) He was inspired to write a poem about her bare midriff, although he’d never caressed nor seen it. The idea was to imagine this unknown bedrock Valley of Pleasure and become its explorer and cartographer. Lofty stuff for a bare midriff, surely, but poets must occasionally take these flights of fancy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}