{"id":1229,"date":"2012-03-12T23:58:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2015-07-22T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:53:22","slug":"slater","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1229","title":{"rendered":"slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>never mind king of the jungle<\/p>\n<p>fame\u2019s at food chain\u2019s other end<\/p>\n<p>you decomposer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>under every log and leaf<\/p>\n<p>rolypoly armadillo armies<\/p>\n<p>protected in your sphere<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>comminuting detritus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dismantling cellulose<\/p>\n<p>back to C, N, H, and O<\/p>\n<p>building blocks for bio highrise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>with overcast complexion\u00a0\u00a0 hell is above ground<\/p>\n<p>beware the light<\/p>\n<p>heaven a warm black earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>patiently munching whole dead forests<\/p>\n<p>eating Death<\/p>\n<p>shitting Life<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in <em>Limestone Magazine<\/em>, a pioneering online poetry website in the UK, 2003<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>also <em>Taj Mahal Review<\/em> (Dr Santosh Kumar, ed.)<\/p>\n<p>CyberWit, Allahabad, INDIA.<\/p>\n<p>Vol 5 #2, Dec, 2006 ISSN: 0972-6004<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Earthly Matters, Biology and Geology Volume\u00a0(ed. Brook Emery and Victoria Haritos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Science Made Marvellous for National Science Week 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and <em>micromacro<\/em>, Seaview Press, 2006<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 never mind king of the jungle fame\u2019s at food chain\u2019s other end you decomposer &nbsp; under every log and leaf rolypoly armadillo armies protected in your sphere &nbsp; comminuting detritus\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dismantling cellulose back to C, N, H, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions\/2457"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}