{"id":793,"date":"2014-11-13T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=793"},"modified":"2014-11-13T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T01:40:33","slug":"the-street-1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=793","title":{"rendered":"The Street (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Street\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>The Street<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walking with the dog on a street<\/p>\n<p>not so old yet so lonely<\/p>\n<p>lonely and silent<\/p>\n<p>in the city yet not within the<\/p>\n<p>bowels of the city<\/p>\n<p>burrowing through time and space<\/p>\n<p>from absolute technocracy to ultimate void<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the few street lamps not burning<\/p>\n<p>but shedding<\/p>\n<p>metallic simulation of light are behind<\/p>\n<p>the stars<\/p>\n<p>beging to pop like holes<\/p>\n<p>in a black crepe cover first a few then<\/p>\n<p>a million tiny acid burns in the<\/p>\n<p>shroud<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A street amidst only the air<\/p>\n<p>buried in silence so heavy that<\/p>\n<p>only the wind can diffuse through<\/p>\n<p>and gently rock the<\/p>\n<p>falling asleep trees<\/p>\n<p>sometimes playing a sweet melody on<\/p>\n<p>a harpsicord of brown and green<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shadows of the street<\/p>\n<p>begin to prance in<\/p>\n<p>ritual extinct for centuries<\/p>\n<p>beginning their dance with slowness and<\/p>\n<p>uncertainty<\/p>\n<p>ending in a lustful crescendo of form<\/p>\n<p>and shape buried together<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walking the dog on a lonely street<\/p>\n<p>that only knows itself as eternity<\/p>\n<p>can only know<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Street\u00a0 by Marc Mangel The Street &nbsp; Walking with the dog on a street not so old yet so lonely lonely and silent in the city yet not within the bowels of the city burrowing through time and space from absolute technocracy to ultimate void &nbsp; When the few street lamps not burning but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=793\">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-793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793\/revisions\/794"}],"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=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}