{"id":876,"date":"2014-07-10T05:37:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2014-08-22T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T13:10:46","slug":"break-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"break the chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters appear in a floor-lit plaza of little bitty be-winged bugs, the tiniest flying ants and gnats and those hoppy, sail-like minies, the largest of the speck creatures not even as long as a grain of short rice, shaped like a grasshopper, but without the hind legs.\u00a0 All of them drawn to the liiiiiight.\u00a0 I make the curser something in their world, too.\u00a0 i think of gnarky, wry midcentury writers who would talk about how easy it is to make a religion, as demonstrated by these bugs\u2019 re-orientation to the curser.\u00a0 In fact they don\u2019t seem to notice the type at all.\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t be here had I not left the porch lights on through dusk.<\/p>\n<p>The work pretends not to haunt me, I pretend to take a break from it, but everything is a lens, an optick.<\/p>\n<p>Let the brain be unlatched, lain open to dry in the sun twice a year.\u00a0 Not thinking anything but making the place that I will be soooo glad for when brain curls back into its tight spiral, one thing on top of the other stacked in the shifted symmetry that the curl provides.<\/p>\n<p>Purification, it says.\u00a0 \u2018purification is necessary first\u2019 before any miracle.\u00a0 Purification is such a fanatical word, who can purify, really?\u00a0 Look how we scrub our oil of olay faces, and eat organic and purify purify purify out damn-ed spot!\u00a0 Out!\u00a0 But, what other word might mean \u00a0wake up? which is my preferred word for the one and very same talking to myself transition in perspective which I wouldn\u2019t call purification because that presumes a reality to er, er, she sputters to a stop on the letter t to get to the essence, eh, to return to the state, the state of forgetting how to write on account of taking a week off, I got sooooo much done around the Kentucky place,<\/p>\n<p>because purification doesn\u2019t mean to clean it means to get to the simplest<\/p>\n<p>I bring myself around to the moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letters appear in a floor-lit plaza of little bitty be-winged bugs, the tiniest flying ants and gnats and those hoppy, sail-like minies, the largest of the speck creatures not even as long as a grain of short rice, shaped like a grasshopper, but without the hind legs.\u00a0 All of them drawn to the liiiiiight.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/?p=876\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">break the chain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshampoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}