{"id":1032,"date":"2017-10-25T08:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:52:20","slug":"apartment-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/10\/25\/apartment-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"Apartment Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/190417890478034496\/\">https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/190417890478034496\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link above shows picture inspiring the poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apartment Mentality<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Four tiny walls<\/p>\n<p>tiny kitchen<\/p>\n<p>tiny molded toilet and overdue rent<\/p>\n<p>angel white tapestry<\/p>\n<p>separating scenes of the city and sounds of<\/p>\n<p>lost people remembering again<\/p>\n<p>blue speckled pots and pans and spoons<\/p>\n<p>falling from countertop to living room<\/p>\n<p>floor, the door concrete and<\/p>\n<p>warped in the dark\u00a0when speakers below blow<\/p>\n<p>brilliant red chords with no room to reach out<\/p>\n<p>so they reach up instead<\/p>\n<p>dirty socks line the doorway, Chinese takeout<\/p>\n<p>the last excuse to leave the room<\/p>\n<p>a dove perch on the open balcony, as far as the<\/p>\n<p>eye can see<\/p>\n<p>nothing but little people doing little things<\/p>\n<p>smalls as dust mites or spider bites<\/p>\n<p>scrambling like eggs in a frying pan across the expanse of<\/p>\n<p>big city spread out\u00a0beneath<\/p>\n<p>each person looking up and biting off small<\/p>\n<p>chunks of their own sky, that is,<\/p>\n<p>within 1000 square feet of carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/190417890478034496\/ Link above shows picture inspiring the poem: Apartment Mentality Four tiny walls tiny kitchen tiny molded toilet and overdue rent angel white tapestry separating scenes of the city and sounds of lost people remembering again blue speckled pots and pans and spoons falling from countertop to living room floor, the door concrete and warped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/10\/25\/apartment-mentality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apartment Mentality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}