{"id":638,"date":"2014-05-22T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2014-05-22T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T00:24:22","slug":"spring-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=638","title":{"rendered":"Spring (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spring can set suddenly and harshly<\/p>\n<p>turning good desires into a puddle of mush<\/p>\n<p>and not wanting to do much<\/p>\n<p>of turning the anger between men into<\/p>\n<p>love between men and women<\/p>\n<p>turning the cold burns of winter into a<\/p>\n<p>warmer burn of summer to be sun that<\/p>\n<p>seems to insulate each one of us in his own<\/p>\n<p>small world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spring can set slowly and painlessly<\/p>\n<p>so quiet to be unnoticed that even the bees<\/p>\n<p>forget to come out and begin their work<\/p>\n<p>on the golden joy of life<\/p>\n<p>so slowly that each man forgets his humanity<\/p>\n<p>and remains the work machine of slavedom to<\/p>\n<p>eating<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And spring ca not set at all<\/p>\n<p>bypassed somehow on the highway<\/p>\n<p>that noone understands and for which the<\/p>\n<p>AAA is missing a map and suddenly from<\/p>\n<p>a wind that screeches through us biting past<\/p>\n<p>the papelike coats there is a sun so hot<\/p>\n<p>and smoldering that our skins cry pain and<\/p>\n<p>the water we took with us many millions ago<\/p>\n<p>disappears as tiny shiny drops into the<\/p>\n<p>air to perhaps come down in a torrent<\/p>\n<p>cause spring can set suddenly and harshly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>April 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring by Marc Mangel &nbsp; Spring can set suddenly and harshly turning good desires into a puddle of mush and not wanting to do much of turning the anger between men into love between men and women turning the cold burns of winter into a warmer burn of summer to be sun that seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=638\">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-638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions\/639"}],"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=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}