{"id":421,"date":"2007-08-14T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2007-08-14T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:30:00","slug":"abdallah-zrika-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/abdallah-zrika-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdallah Zrika Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdallah Zrika<\/p>\n<p>MICE OF THE WHEEL OF LONELINESS<\/p>\n<p>1.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to be the chair<br \/>facing the body of the deceased<\/p>\n<p>nor the insect of emptiness<br \/>between the legs of the words<\/p>\n<p>nor the pebble of the eye that breaks<br \/>the surface of the glass<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>not even the red<br \/>      that hasn\u2019t seen the least drop of blood to lick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2.<\/p>\n<p>I do not understand the shape of the millstone<br \/>when the wind throws me down<\/p>\n<p>nor the rain<br \/>that runs away<br \/>through the holes in my shoes<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where I am  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>when I see an earth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>marked off by the pillars of my death<br \/>And I don\u2019t understand the sky  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>when the rain falls<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>at the bottom of my head  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in the place of the pail<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>that slightly shakes my bed<\/p>\n<p>3.<\/p>\n<p>I understand fever when  it grabs me<br \/>scrambling everything I hear  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wiping away everything I see<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>in the very sweat that drains from me<\/p>\n<p>until I wake up<br \/>and open the world the way one opens an icebox<br \/>finding nothing  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>except the smell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>of white  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>rotten because of the ice<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>                      Casablanca, 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdallah Zrika MICE OF THE WHEEL OF LONELINESS 1. I don\u2019t want to be the chairfacing the body of the deceased nor the insect of emptinessbetween the legs of the words nor the pebble&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}