{"id":28327,"date":"2018-02-05T08:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2018-02-05T08:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:55:46","slug":"grub-street-deformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2018\/02\/grub-street-deformation.html","title":{"rendered":"Grub Street Deformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

BEACHED<\/strong> <\/p>\n

On the sunny island of friendship
\nash was falling from our faces.
\n\u201cThis is not subtle,\u201d the doc said.
\nHe prescribed a regimen of pills
\nthe size of Montaigne\u2019s chateau.
\nMy head shrank to a bungalow
\nin Far Rockaway, and I recalled
\nthe ghost ship of our childhoods
\nbeached against the boardwalk
\nwhere a hurricane had tossed it.
\nHere on Grub Street we crash
\n\u2018arse first and facing frontwards\u2019
\nlike buckets of dots and dashes
\nwith stories of our heroic travels. <\/p>\n

–Jan Herman<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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