{"id":3938,"date":"2009-01-05T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2009-04-17T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:05:37","slug":"three-poems-alan-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/three-poems-alan-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alan Kelly.<\/p>\n

The Bell I Hear Now<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a
\nbell
\ntolling
\nfar off
\nbut I
\nwonder
\nif it
\nwill mark
\na
\nTransubstantiation
\nor summon
\nmy executioner.<\/p>\n

The Fuck Box<\/strong><\/p>\n

My boy cunt
\nsuckled Joe’s
\ncock
\nwithout sheath
\nwhile
\nthe boy I used to be
\nlooked back at our
\nbodies
\nbemused
\nfrom the mirror
\nin the
\nFuck box.<\/p>\n

Respite<\/strong><\/p>\n

grabbed the bulk of a sweetshop
\nbarely able to fit in my back pocket
\nbrought this sweetshop
\nback through our kitchen window
\nto the kids all smiley like
\nan eternity in respite<\/p>\n

They hauled it all down
\ntheir eyes all stalks
\ntongue hangin’ in spite
\na good thirty seconds
\na fuckin’ lifetime in
\nrespite<\/p>\n

Lie on the sofabed
\nlistening to people
\nfuckin’ their veins
\nfingers wrapped around
\nmy dick
\nflaccid,
\n20 seconds in respite<\/p>\n

Impartial motherfucker,
\nkids go nuts,
\nsit with cheap beer
\nin respite<\/p>\n

10 fuckin’ years,
\nto the fuckin’ day
\nin respite
\nrespite
\nrespite.<\/p>\n

\"580e\"
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR
\nAlan Kelly<\/strong> has contributed to Penny Blood<\/i>, GCN<\/i>, Bookslut<\/i>, Butcherqueers<\/i>, Pretty Scary<\/i>, Film Ireland<\/i>, Sein Und Werden<\/i> and Shoots and Vines<\/i> and The Laura Hird Showcase. His fiction has appeared in Dogmatika, Beat the Dust, Gold Dust, Lit up Magazine, Six Sentences, Parasitic, The Bloodied Quill and The Beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"580e1\"grabbed the bulk of a sweetshop
\nbarely able to fit in my back pocket
\nbrought this sweetshop
\nback through our kitchen window
\nto the kids all smiley like
\nan eternity in respite<\/p>\n

They hauled it all down
\ntheir eyes all stalks
\ntongue hangin’ in spite
\na good thirty seconds
\na fuckin’ lifetime in
\nrespite<\/p>\n

By Alan Kelly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}