{"id":10561,"date":"2020-01-06T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2020-01-06T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T15:54:17","slug":"breathless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10561","title":{"rendered":"Breathless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cropped and edited lobby card for Lost Continent<\/a><\/em> (Lippert Pictures, 1951)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David C. Kopaska-Merkel  and Kendall Evans<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
I doubt the dinosaur will notice us,<\/em>
Said Kyle but he could not have been more wrong,
Tyrannowhatsit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nostrils flared; it turned,
And fixed us with a huge slit-pupiled eye,
It took a dainty step and then one more,
I longingly remembered Uncle Dan,
His case of dynamite, his gun, his axe,
His foot and entrails strewn across
This Mesozoic era, what a mess.

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d only had to outrun Kyle and Sue,
I spun the dial and punched the button: go!
But, oops, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d meant to follow time's arrow
The other way; I've traveled
Deeper in the past, not back toward my own future\u00c2\u00a0Now<\/em>.
Too late, I saw my journey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final end,
4 billion years before Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fabled birth,
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be no oxygen for me to breathe,
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to hold my breath, re-jump, and hope!

Problem is,
My re-jump efforts failed,
I'm stuck in this eternal moment:
Bare earth and lifeless sea,
It'll take long hours before
The solar batteries recharge,
I'm pretty sure I cannot hold my breath
that long\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/font face><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David C. Kopaska-Merkel  and Kendall Evans I doubt the dinosaur will notice us,Said Kyle but he could not have been more wrong,Tyrannowhatsit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nostrils flared; it turned,And fixed us with a huge slit-pupiled eye,It took a dainty step and then one more,I longingly remembered Uncle Dan,His case of dynamite, his gun, his axe,His foot and entrails […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10568,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/10568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}