Down the street,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a tiny bicycle meanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rider holds a bag of cans<\/p>\n\n\n\n
over a shoulder with her left hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s an old woman,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
bespectacled, brown hair flowing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wearing a groovy cloth coat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She’s riding a Barbie bike<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with white tassels,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
white tires,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
white handle grips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wait! She’s riding handless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She’s swigging from<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a fifth of Southern Comfort<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with her right hand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janis Joplin drank Southern Comfort!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This woman looks exactly like Janis Joplin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus this is a lot of exclamations in a poem!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You never read exclamation points in New Yorker<\/em> poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Yorker <\/em>poets apparently<\/p>\n\n\n\n have no exclamation points<\/p>\n\n\n\n in their lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n to convey in poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just a lot of<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Down the street, a tiny bicycle meanders. The rider holds a bag of cans over a shoulder with her left hand. It’s an old woman, bespectacled, brown hair flowing, wearing a groovy cloth coat. She’s riding a Barbie bike with white tassels, white tires, white handle grips. Wait! She’s riding handless! She’s swigging from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8744","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\/8744","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=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}