{"id":120,"date":"2010-01-05T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:39:32","slug":"poetry-tuesday-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Tuesday:  Under the Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Microscope<\/p>\n<p>In the right light, and from<br \/>\nthe right distance, anyone<br \/>\ncan look good.  Vivian Leigh<br \/>\nat the barbeque would be jealous<br \/>\nof you when you put on a little<br \/>\nmascara, dim the lights,<br \/>\nand take a picture of the mirror<br \/>\nfifteen feet away.<\/p>\n<p>But under the microscope,<br \/>\nthat baby cute skin is a carrier<br \/>\nfor corruption and staph infection<br \/>\nno matter how many times<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve Germ-Xd your hands.<\/p>\n<p>In the hospital, the air is kept cool<br \/>\nto slow down molecules<br \/>\nand thus to minimize the damage<br \/>\nyou might do to yourself and others.<\/p>\n<p>We sit together, only a mocha latte,<br \/>\na blueberry muffin, and a billion<br \/>\nmolecules of disease separating us<br \/>\nas we attempt to make<br \/>\neach other believe we matter.<\/p>\n<p>If we heat our words with coffee,<br \/>\ndoes that mean they move faster,<br \/>\nreducing the risk we&#8217;ll dissect<br \/>\nfor the ugly minutia<br \/>\nattached to our lives<br \/>\ninevitably, involuntarily<br \/>\nalong the way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Microscope In the right light, and from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}