{"id":415,"date":"2007-12-14T00:40:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2023-09-24T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T00:36:31","slug":"fire-sale-in-samsara-how-i-experience-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/fire-sale-in-samsara-how-i-experience-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Sale in Samsara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the mall again.<br \/>\nBodhisattva on a bench.<br \/>\nEcho holidays down Muzak channel.<br \/>\nSwirl of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Directory says<br \/>\nI&#8217;m here, can&#8217;t prove it.<br \/>\nIf I am a dot, then:<br \/>\nescalators.<\/p>\n<p>Food court, maybe<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been drugged? Soda<br \/>\nfootprints,<br \/>\nneon seizure?<\/p>\n<p>Objects<br \/>\nmultiply: third eye tracks<br \/>\nthe heart, the ass, the bag.<br \/>\nMuzak blaring.<\/p>\n<p>Candy! OM!<br \/>\nA swelling OM,<br \/>\nalways free, with purchase.<br \/>\n(Brut, organza)<\/p>\n<p>Balled-up napkin,<br \/>\nwheelchair ramp.<br \/>\nTen couples, griping, wander;<br \/>\nholly candle.<\/p>\n<p>Shoe crunch coffee bean.<br \/>\n\u201cSpritz perfume?\u201d<br \/>\nOnly if it wakes<br \/>\nme up, Madame.<\/p>\n<p>Three days, seemed like,<br \/>\nlotus in a cave.<br \/>\nBlinking yellow lights, life-<br \/>\ntime, parking garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[How I experience shopping.]<\/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":[77,124,123,115],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-bodhisattva","tag-enlightenment","tag-illusion","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}