{"id":112,"date":"2011-02-03T23:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T07:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-02-04T11:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T19:05:55","slug":"hells-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Hell&#8217;s Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The towel I use to dry myself<br \/>\nSmells of meat almost spoiled.<br \/>\nHumid condensation leeches<br \/>\nBrown ichor from wallpapered walls.<br \/>\nAthwart an unsteady ignoble seat<br \/>\nRinged with grime and decay,<br \/>\nI ponder the spider building his web,<br \/>\nThen dash his life away.<br \/>\nNo small bird to peer within<br \/>\nThis dank windowless room,<br \/>\nSunk in miasma of unpleasant thought<br \/>\nBitterly jealous of the tomb.<br \/>\nTen units of plasma barely kept him stable.<br \/>\nThey taped the tubes and his eyes.<br \/>\nKept him on the table for six, seven hours.<br \/>\nAnd after all that, he died.<br \/>\nBrooding, claustrophobic walls<br \/>\nClose in about my knees.<br \/>\nMy head free from enclosing constraint,<br \/>\nBut not from what lies beneath.<br \/>\nThe scars may be hidden above<br \/>\nBut bore deep into bone.<br \/>\nCannibal emptiness looses its stench<br \/>\nUpon the cloaca of the world.<br \/>\nMan was born to eat and shit,<br \/>\nAnd fail to digest for a time.<br \/>\nWould there were toilet paper enough<br \/>\nTo wipe this ass of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The towel I use to dry myself Smells of meat almost spoiled. Humid condensation leeches Brown ichor from wallpapered walls. Athwart an unsteady ignoble seat Ringed with grime and decay, I ponder the spider building his web, Then dash his life away. No small bird to peer within This dank windowless room, Sunk in miasma &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hell&#8217;s Toilet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}