{"id":10811,"date":"2021-09-19T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2021-09-19T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T23:33:22","slug":"endemic-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"Endemic Sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/585px-Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_-_Tearful_Bride.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"585\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/585px-Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_-_Tearful_Bride.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/585px-Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_-_Tearful_Bride.jpg 585w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/585px-Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_-_Tearful_Bride-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Jan Sanders van Hemessen &#8211; Tearful Bride<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skip Sorn<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nShe is a pioneer.\n\nShe cannot teleport\noff-world.\nShe cannot communicate\noff-world.\n\nTransmission is blocked\nby spectral coronal flares\nby solar mass eruptions\nby sudden incapacitating sorrow.\n\nThe planet is too near the star.\nShe should have known.\nNow, she is isolated.\nAlone.\n\nShe hides in Howe Caverns,\nsix million year-old caves that\nplunge into blackness below\ntourist level. She must not be found.\n\nShe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s keening-\nher distress is telepathic\nregistering below consciousness\nin human females within 500 kilometers.\n\nIt sets off an outbreak of ineffable\nsadness, resistant to SSRIs. Psychiatrists\ncan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fathom the widespread depression.\nWomen lie down, weeping without warning.\n\nShe too weeps without warning.\nHer tears are warm syrup unlike\nhuman dripping. Her hair is\nfoliage, green-yellow, now wilting.\n\nSoon the darkness, the absence\nof sunlight will kill her.\nAt her death, human females will not be\ndespondent, will rise up uncaring and\nsmile.\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skip Sorn She is a pioneer. She cannot teleport off-world. She cannot communicate off-world. Transmission is blocked by spectral coronal flares by solar mass eruptions by sudden incapacitating sorrow. The planet is too near the star. She should have known. Now, she is isolated. Alone. She hides in Howe Caverns, six million year-old caves that [&hellip;]<\/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-10811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811","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=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10813,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions\/10813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}