{"id":933,"date":"2015-11-23T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2015-11-15T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T18:42:11","slug":"i-have-tried-to-stop-eating-stars-by-cathy-bryant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"I Have Tried to Stop Eating Stars, by Cathy Bryant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_934\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-934\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Averrhoa carambola Blanco1.139-cropped&quot; by Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas [...] Gran edicion [...] [Atlas I].[1]. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped.jpg#\/media\/File:Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped-258x300.jpg 258w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped-882x1024.jpg 882w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Averrhoa_carambola_Blanco1.139-cropped.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Averrhoa carambola Blanco1.139-cropped&#8221; by Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) &#8211; Flora de Filipinas [&#8230;] Gran edicion [&#8230;] [Atlas I].[1]. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have tried to stop eating stars;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">they make me gassy.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know that planets should be eaten by the galaxy,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">all resting on one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fork, full of fibre and crunch<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and water and magma.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know that asteroid belts, if eaten whole,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">contain all the necessary elements for health,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">especially if one swallows<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the odd meteor shower too.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And they all say, have the occasional comet.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It does no harm.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat the stars.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat the stars!<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help it. I see them there<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in their sweetmeat box, chosen to show<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">them off as much as possible, and I long<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for that full mouthful of warm comfort.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The red ones, a touch overripe, are the best<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; spicy, sometimes bursting on your tongue.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Afterwards I feel warm and energetic.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I can juggle gods after a few suns.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One day I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll explode with the gluttony<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of warmth and light, and spew out the most<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">voluptuous universe, all light and curves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have tried to stop eating stars;they make me gassy.I know that planets should be eaten by the galaxy,all resting on one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fork, full of fibre and crunchand water and magma.I know that asteroid belts, if eaten whole,contain all the necessary elements for health,especially if one swallowsthe odd meteor shower too.And they all say, [&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-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}