{"id":1736,"date":"2012-07-18T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1736"},"modified":"2012-07-18T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:53:31","slug":"noah-siela-712","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/noah-siela-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Noah Siela, 7\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fuck the Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>23 scholars and the curator<br \/>\nwrestling for who gets to go<br \/>\nas Gil-Scott Heron to the faculty<br \/>\nHalloween party and one guy,<br \/>\nunwatched on the first floor,<br \/>\npainting a smoldering DeLorean<br \/>\ninto a very famous work of art.<br \/>\nThey have set up a display<br \/>\nof broken tools: ball peens<br \/>\nhammered flat headbutting<br \/>\none another; a bronzed,<br \/>\ndented shovel used to<br \/>\nclean up the glue-thick mess<br \/>\nof the utopian dead leaning<br \/>\nin the corner; an encased and<br \/>\ncrack-handled pick-ax<br \/>\nfound alone in a big-bellied<br \/>\nenvironment that eroded to dots<br \/>\nand was taken forever by a<br \/>\nlunge of rolling creek foam<br \/>\nwhile the folksy population,<br \/>\nnormally hardwired to high-fence<br \/>\ntheir outbursts, begged loud<br \/>\nfor mercy to nothing in particular.<br \/>\nTemp to Hire<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: If hired,<br \/>\nwhat do you think<br \/>\nwould be the biggest strength<br \/>\nyou\u2019d bring to the company?<br \/>\nMe: I fuck like a stroke victim<br \/>\nI said, looking over<br \/>\nher head into the parking lot<br \/>\nto watch a fat sparrow<br \/>\nswoop down to grab<br \/>\nthe wrong crumb, hop<br \/>\naround for a bit in sharp glints<br \/>\nof a world shattered solid.<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t get the job<br \/>\nand after they led me<br \/>\nfrom the building<br \/>\nI went home and hacked<br \/>\nall my shade trees to stumps,<br \/>\nwalked downtown in a cold breeze<br \/>\nof gold dust exhaled<br \/>\nfrom a million last breaths<br \/>\nto listen to all the bland deals<br \/>\nhappening in tall buildings<br \/>\nexplode to hot in half-shadow,<br \/>\nantebellum heartwrench everywhere<br \/>\ntacked tight in pendant form<br \/>\nto the lapels of the gray-haired booming<br \/>\nwhile my bones snapped loud<br \/>\nunder the weight of\u00a0 bronzing skin<br \/>\nlike bored ghosts cracking<br \/>\nball bats against purgatory walls,<br \/>\njust an ex-fullback in 3-point stance<br \/>\nletting loose copper-tin tears,<br \/>\nfact-cuddling plot points<br \/>\nin the fable of me surviving a mauling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bookmobile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The woman I love<br \/>\nhas to be thinking about<br \/>\ngenocide during handjobs.<br \/>\nCausing it, fixing it&#8230;I don\u2019t know.<br \/>\nThis post-orgasm morning is<br \/>\nforcing new colors and I can hear<br \/>\nthe neighbors, wild lions,<br \/>\ncough down their roars<br \/>\nhauling their children by the scruff<br \/>\nto preschool, and even the swarms<br \/>\nof birds are bureaucratic<br \/>\nflapping over the top of raccoon-raided<br \/>\npheasant nests or dog-gnawed squirrel bones.<br \/>\nThe cities of geometry are a fever like rage,<br \/>\nbut the killing sticks are being chipped<br \/>\ninto mulch to soften the crash-down<br \/>\nof a billion-band rainbow<br \/>\ninterjecting into a drone attack where<br \/>\na man, eating concussion,<br \/>\nspins like a Plains tornado into a bookmobile,<br \/>\nlays unlimbed and bleeding to death<br \/>\non a pile of John Grisham,<br \/>\nof true crime, of donated spines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuck the Museum 23 scholars and the curator wrestling for who gets to go as Gil-Scott Heron to the faculty Halloween party and one guy, unwatched on the first floor, painting a smoldering DeLorean into a very famous work of art. 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