{"id":390,"date":"2006-12-13T00:51:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T04:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-mind-of-abrupt\/2006\/12\/13\/the-many-become-one-and-are-increased-by-one\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T04:58:43","slug":"the-many-become-one-and-are-increased-by-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-many-become-one-and-are-increased-by-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The many become one, and are increased by one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ash is in the air<br \/>\nAll the little children are leaving.<br \/>\nLook around you:<br \/>\nthe last great migration&#8217;s<br \/>\nbegun.<\/p>\n<p>There was never a promise<br \/>\n&ndash; no rainbow from God &ndash;<br \/>\nthat we would die in a warm feather bed.<br \/>\nAll the businessmen melt,<br \/>\nand the generals huddle.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re at their best when the meat<br \/>\nbegins to boil.<\/p>\n<p>A woman at the spaceport<br \/>\nsniffs the air and gags.<br \/>\nWest wind is coughing pine,<br \/>\nthe ruptured muck of forests:<br \/>\ngrub-flesh stink and blister-singe.<\/p>\n<p>Ash swarms down like hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Then the asphalt heaves,<br \/>\nand in the whipping trees<br \/>\nthe monkeys, pissing, howl!<br \/>\nat the great machines. This is<\/p>\n<p>not another Ice Age.<br \/>\nPlant your feet &ndash; you can feel it spinning<br \/>\nIt is the violet doorway<br \/>\nthe vortex through the Human.<\/p>\n<p>Something wafts above the stinking hordes,<br \/>\nsurvives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash is in the air &#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":[304,28,11,31,305],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-animal","tag-apocalypse","tag-eco","tag-human","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}