{"id":669,"date":"2013-04-08T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2013-04-05T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:00:00","slug":"beyond-the-great-turtle-by-wc-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Great Turtle by WC Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23762\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">The world on the backs of elephants\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23760\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23765\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23764\" style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">standing room only on the Great Turtle, Akapara<br \/>\npraying she does not dive again<br \/>\ninto eternity<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23776\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23775\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23774\" style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">but not the Brahmin<br \/>\nriding on the roof of the train car<br \/>\nsmoking a cigarette and looking down<br \/>\non the Ganges, the world-source<br \/>\nchoked with sludge<br \/>\nand affluence.<\/p>\n<p>We take the subcontinent and divide it still further<br \/>\ninto plots of earth, looking for sustenance<br \/>\nthe oil seeping from its wounds and our own<br \/>\nthe Gupta regime with its gold trim upon the pyre<br \/>\na suffragette, a Sati widow<br \/>\n<em>Libert\u00c3\u00a9<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0<em id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23777\">\u00c3\u00a9galit\u00c3\u00a9, fraternit\u00c3\u00a9<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23779\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">burning as the L40 boosters explode<br \/>\nfrom\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23781\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">the Satish Dhawan Space Center, on Sriharikota Island<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23784\" style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365106160066_23783\" style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">taking with it our mended limbs.\u00c2\u00a0 Our many-armed nation<br \/>\nbursting at the seams as it reaches upward<br \/>\nstriving for equality in the cosmos<br \/>\nmade hostile only<br \/>\nby the approach<br \/>\nfrom the west.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world on the backs of elephants\u00c2\u00a0 standing room only on the Great Turtle, Akapara praying she does not dive again into eternity but not the Brahmin riding on the roof of the train car smoking a cigarette and looking down on the Ganges, the world-source choked with sludge and affluence. We take the subcontinent [&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-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}