{"id":900,"date":"2015-03-09T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2015-03-07T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T16:40:08","slug":"no-need-to-go-home-you-bring-it-with-you-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"No Need To Go Home, You Bring It With You, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

Spreading, ink blotty,
\ninto the galactic arm,
\nchanging as needed
\nor fancied, everything drifts,
\nthe walk, the talk,
\nwhat you pack into your cells,
\nwhat you need to breathe,
\ntill the Talking Faces don’t know what,
\neven more than they never did.<\/p>\n

But what the fuck,
\nI’m a xenolinguist,:
\nwe only care about real aliens
\n(which we’ve still never met);
\ngene-drifted post-humans
\nare just like the pre-galactics,
\nwho lived & died, stuck on Planet Dirt.<\/p>\n

My buds went full methane head,
\nJovian diving, looking for
\na million floating cities,
\nsome sought deep-space sailors,
\nsuited & suitless,
\ncreeping helium, boiling lead,
\nund so weiter,
\nbut found nobody home,
\nnobody BEEN home, dig?<\/p>\n

Our ancestors killed off
\ntheir hominid cousins,
\nand no one else crawled out
\nof the collective unconscious anywhere.
\nWe’ve looked–genus Homo is IT.<\/p>\n

And, monkey with the cerebrum as you will,
\nbut the brain-stems haven’t changed,
\n(oh, we could, we did,
\nbut the uniformly brutal ends of
\ncountless colonies of reversionists
\nproved we can’t civilize our inner lizards)
\nwe are ourselves, whatever the suit,
\nthe tongue, milieu, or place,
\nringing changes on a tongue flick
\nprimal stream of the eternal snarling now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spreading, ink blotty, into the galactic arm, changing as needed or fancied, everything drifts, the walk, the talk, what you pack into your cells, what you need to breathe, till the Talking Faces don’t know what, even more than they never did. But what the fuck, I’m a xenolinguist,: we only care about real aliens […]<\/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-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","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=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}