{"id":116493,"date":"2021-12-30T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=116493"},"modified":"2021-12-30T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T18:50:32","slug":"bike-by-louis-bourgeois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/bike-by-louis-bourgeois\/","title":{"rendered":"“BIKE” by Louis Bourgeois"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

where is the dog dead?
how is the road bent?
how did I get here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

where\u2019s my bike?
that\u2019s the only way to leave these days
(try as I might)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my bike is over there shot in two by a
eunuch wearing an armani coat holding a winchester
the armani is well fitting, looking bourgeois
someone call the cops, forget the cops\u2026.
how about us going to the library to plug
into more kant and descartes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

nothing to live for?
nothing to die for\u2026.
(that\u2019s a graver statement)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

o\u2019 sartre thou pluckest me out
o\u2019 sartre thou pluckest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there\u2019s still nothing to fix my bike with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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where is the dog dead?how is the road bent?how did I get here? where\u2019s my bike?that\u2019s the only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123466,"featured_media":116486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11903],"tags":[3252,5,4,4782,3],"class_list":["post-116493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-louis-bourgeois","tag-louis-bourgeois","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-poetry","tag-the-local-voice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/poetry.jpg?fit=1000%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}