{"id":616,"date":"2014-05-16T01:13:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=616"},"modified":"2014-05-16T01:13:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:13:35","slug":"a-border-kibbutz-at-night-september-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=616","title":{"rendered":"A Border Kibbutz at Night (September 1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Border Kibbutz at Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just been seen<\/p>\n<p>as lights<\/p>\n<p>blinking flickering at night<\/p>\n<p>so far that day makes invisibility<\/p>\n<p>yet you are there<\/p>\n<p>on a border?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protecting or just beaming<\/p>\n<p>beaconing<\/p>\n<p>beckoning<\/p>\n<p>us<\/p>\n<p>perhaps you have a girl<\/p>\n<p>with soft black eyes<\/p>\n<p>and round brown breasts<\/p>\n<p>whom i could love<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>or is it just the land<\/p>\n<p>which truly was ours before<\/p>\n<p>we were hers<\/p>\n<p>a black soil and streaming<\/p>\n<p>wind forcing still clear water<\/p>\n<p>a land which i could<\/p>\n<p>really love<\/p>\n<p>perhaps<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i see you have a neighbor<\/p>\n<p>but he also just vibrates light<\/p>\n<p>maybe far away<\/p>\n<p>do you long for company<\/p>\n<p>search for joy<\/p>\n<p>or for sorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you lights so far away<\/p>\n<p>is isolation so<\/p>\n<p>painful<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you lights so far away<\/p>\n<p>is purpose<\/p>\n<p>so rewarding<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>tell us<\/p>\n<p>we long to know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>September 1973 [I was at a meeting on warm lakes, held at the Kinneret, when I wrote this. \u00a0Less than a month later the Yom Kippur War started]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Border Kibbutz at Night by Marc Mangel &nbsp; You&#8217;ve just been seen as lights blinking flickering at night so far that day makes invisibility yet you are there on a border? &nbsp; Protecting or just beaming beaconing beckoning us perhaps you have a girl with soft black eyes and round brown breasts whom i &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/616\/revisions\/617"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}