{"id":326,"date":"2000-08-09T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2000-08-10T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2010-03-09T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T01:01:32","slug":"cat-paws-scrabbling-on-linoleum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/cat-paws-scrabbling-on-linoleum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Paws on Linoleum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>quite possibly<br \/>\none could pass through life<br \/>\nunscathed by the blade of confusion<br \/>\nhaving locked up the glare<br \/>\nof infancy&#8217;s shimmer:<\/p>\n<p>birthday cakes, paint-by-number<br \/>\ncatching crayfish or<br \/>\nburying the pink robin;<br \/>\nplane flights to visit family,<br \/>\nclouds out the window,<br \/>\nthe creviced mystery of furniture,<br \/>\nmammarian cushions and<br \/>\nblack vinyl vulvas;<br \/>\nscavenging on bikes<br \/>\nafter july-4th fireworks,<br \/>\nlooking for live ones;<br \/>\nthe ant-ocidal obsession<br \/>\nwith the sun&#8217;s cleansing stare<br \/>\nwhen focused through<br \/>\nthe 2-volume-oxford-english-dictionary&#8217;s<br \/>\nmagnifying glass &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>i should say, confusion is when<br \/>\nthe brackets of sense fall away,<br \/>\nlike the rising rocket&#8217;s access scaffold<br \/>\nleaving the mind to expand unchannelled<br \/>\nwithout reference or depth<br \/>\nas car wheels spin on ice,<br \/>\nand running cat-paws<br \/>\nscrabble foolish<br \/>\non the linoleum floor<\/p>\n<p>confusion has a buzzing<br \/>\nsound it makes,<br \/>\nor that clings to its sliding belly.<br \/>\nall ten thousand ghosts<br \/>\nof the strap-bulging blare,<br \/>\nwhen those straps burst,<br \/>\nreturn to pure vibration:<br \/>\nthey show form<br \/>\nonly when restrained.<br \/>\nthis hum,<br \/>\nsigil of confusion,<br \/>\napes the shadow of the waking mind,<br \/>\nsub-resonant shadow-stratum<br \/>\nof creation.<\/p>\n<p>i burst through into its cloister<br \/>\nwet with alien mists<br \/>\nand establish myself,<br \/>\na tolerated guest<br \/>\nof confusion&#8217;s fancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quite possibly \/ one could pass through life<br \/>\nunscathed by the blade of confusion &#8230;<\/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":[252,298,123,86,203],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-buzz","tag-chaos","tag-illusion","tag-memory","tag-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}