{"id":362,"date":"2006-11-14T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/check-unpeople-sliding-a-poem-by-vim-cortez\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T19:59:48","slug":"check-unpeople-sliding-a-poem-by-vim-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/check-unpeople-sliding-a-poem-by-vim-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Unpeople Sliding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the brink of exception<br \/>\nMan scrawls manifestoes<br \/>\nTelling lies for the thrill<br \/>\nOf discovery.<br \/>\n&#8220;You never thought you&#8217;d<br \/>\nBe in on my list<br \/>\nYet there was precedence:<br \/>\nAcclaimed suitors<br \/>\nTo the tune of millions<br \/>\nDragged eyeless souls<br \/>\nOn the pebbles of dawn.<br \/>\nI deliberated in simplistic terms of<br \/>\nAntagonism.<br \/>\nAnd wrote you down.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe throbbing menace<br \/>\nBumblebee droningly acquiring clout<br \/>\nAcross many acres,<br \/>\nWinter-long tracts of greying lands<br \/>\nVibrating through my varityper.<br \/>\nMammoths subsume untrodden paths<br \/>\nBeneath delicate boughs of<br \/>\nThe same shrubs as did once<br \/>\nBrush my palms.<\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/vimcortez\"><strong>Vim Cortez<\/strong><\/a> lives near Paris, France, is currently writing more than usual, plays in various bands, notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theungodlyhours\"><strong>The Ungodly Hours<\/strong><\/a>, edits <a href=\"http:\/\/parisbitterheartspit.blogspot.com\/\"><i><strong>The Paris Bitter Hearts Pit<\/strong><\/i><\/a>, and more generally lives the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/offbeatgeneration\"><strong>Offbeat<\/strong><\/a> life. As Vim Cortez or under aliases, he has been published in various places, online and on paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/buzzwordsblog\/uploaded_images\/vimcortez-708313.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/buzzwordsblog\/uploaded_images\/vimcortez-795671.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never thought you&#8217;d \/ Be in on my list \/ Yet there was precedence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A poem by <b>Vim Cortez<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}