{"id":1379,"date":"2007-10-18T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2010-03-09T08:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:11:22","slug":"giving-up-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/giving-up-the-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up the Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black leaf against the sky<br \/>\nTracing arcs of abandon<\/p>\n<p>No one left to see it now<br \/>\nNo one left to wonder<br \/>\nWhy it gave up<br \/>\nThe green<\/p>\n<p>On a hot breeze blowing<br \/>\nPast the husks of silos<br \/>\nWhere the brambles whistle<br \/>\nOver thistle and forlorn<\/p>\n<p>Little leaf is sailing<br \/>\nThrough the broken grin<br \/>\nOf cities sunk in shadow<br \/>\nFull of cars that don&#8217;t pollute<\/p>\n<p>Almost stuck in the great<br \/>\nBrown-green river<br \/>\nOozing through empty cables<br \/>\nOnce a bridge a mile long<\/p>\n<p>It is firmly caught<br \/>\nIn a forest of fur<br \/>\nPylons like the stuff<br \/>\nThat used to grow on cheese<\/p>\n<p>The leaf is absorbed by the fungus<br \/>\nStaring at the sky.<br \/>\nAnd where is the mind to eulogize<br \/>\nThis stupid leaf, vestige<br \/>\nOf a world gone by?<\/p>\n<p>The mind is somewhere<br \/>\nCause Mind can never die<br \/>\nBut it isn&#8217;t here<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t in this place<\/p>\n<p>Because it gave up the green<br \/>\nIt gave up the green<\/p>\n<p>When a mind leaves a body<br \/>\nIt goes somewhere else<br \/>\nBut an unworthy death<br \/>\nLeaves the mind<br \/>\nTwitching like a shrimp<br \/>\nIn the endless void<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[What the quiet might be like.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[156,28,11,154,153,144,155],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-afterlife","tag-apocalypse","tag-eco","tag-green","tag-leaf","tag-sky","tag-void"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}