{"id":6677,"date":"2012-09-17T06:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2012-09-17T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T13:56:40","slug":"a-rage-for-rigor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2012\/09\/17\/a-rage-for-rigor\/","title":{"rendered":"a rage for rigor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>TO THE HYPHENATED POETS<\/p>\n<p>Richer than mother&#8217;s milk<br \/>\nis half-and-half<br \/>\nFriends of two minds,<br \/>\nredouble your craft.<\/p>\n<p>Our shelves our hives, our selves<br \/>\na royal jelly,<br \/>\nmay we at Benares and Boston,<br \/>\nPhilly and Delhi<\/p>\n<p>collect our birthright nectar.<br \/>\nNo swarm our own,<br \/>\nwe must be industrious, both<br \/>\nqueen and drone.<\/p>\n<p>Being two beings requires<br \/>\na rage for rigor<br \/>\nrewritable memory,<br \/>\nhybrid vigor.<\/p>\n<p>English herself is a crossbreed<br \/>\nmother mutt,<br \/>\nprimly promiscuous<br \/>\nand hot to rut.<\/p>\n<p>Oneness? Pure chimera.<br \/>\nSplendor is spliced.<br \/>\nMake your halves into something<br \/>\ntwice your size,<\/p>\n<p>your tongue a hyphen joining<br \/>\nnation to nation.<br \/>\nRecombine, become a thing<br \/>\nof your own creation,<\/p>\n<p>a many-minded mongrel,<br \/>\nthe line&#8217;s renewal,<br \/>\nself-made and twofold,<br \/>\nsoul and dual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Amit Majmudar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO THE HYPHENATED POETS Richer than mother&#8217;s milk is half-and-half Friends of two minds, redouble your craft. Our shelves our hives, our selves a royal jelly, may we at Benares and Boston, Philly and Delhi collect our birthright nectar. No swarm our own, we must be industrious, both queen and drone. Being two beings requires&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}