{"id":8904,"date":"2017-12-13T21:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T17:34:33","slug":"two-poems-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904","title":{"rendered":"Two poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Vintage Metal<\/h4>\n<p>vintage metal tins in iTunes<br \/>\nsour ends like blood or B12 supplements<br \/>\niron ass-shots mom got<br \/>\nyet mostly what was spinning in my Discman <\/p>\n<p>back then in the back of our four-door<br \/>\ndrowning out fighting with Smashing Pumpkins<br \/>\ndoubling down in mid-career, crawling from forge<br \/>\nto table, mini-Moloch\u2019s ignorant alloy<\/p>\n<p>automatic transmission accompanying<br \/>\nmy own anemia\u2019s antecedents<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4>Tuscaloosa Contacts<\/h4>\n<p>Drew, who ten years ago drank underage<br \/>\nand was chased by police into a cornfield.<br \/>\nThey let him go<br \/>\nsince he ditched his license from Ontario,<br \/>\n84 etched into 81,<br \/>\nand said \u201cyou boys came a long way<br \/>\nto make a whole lot of trouble.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Erik and Nathanael, whom I met<br \/>\nat the College English Association conference<br \/>\nin Indianapolis, Indiana, during<br \/>\nthe governorship of Mike Pence.<br \/>\nThat day the pizza-shop guy apologized<br \/>\nfor Pence\u2019s anti-gay law when he served me,<br \/>\nboth our nametags shining,<br \/>\nsitting by myself without a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Drew\u2019s sister Hayley, who was there for school<br \/>\nand then hired as a professor of kinesiology.<br \/>\nI met Hayley only once, on Skype,<br \/>\nbut another time ate burgers<br \/>\nwith Drew\u2019s other sister, Erin, and Emily,<br \/>\nthe day she presented on<br \/>\nthe social construction of crazy<br \/>\nand lost it herself at that conference.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever rejected my poems<br \/>\nat the <em>Black Warrior<br \/>\nReview<\/em>. Fuck you.<\/p>\n<p>Nan, whom I briefly dated in Montreal,<br \/>\nwho wrote a romance novel set there,<br \/>\nwhere her mom Lynne teaches English.<br \/>\nI dumped Nan over Facebook<br \/>\nand then she blocked me, but I kept<br \/>\nher novel, Ellie Draft 6.doc.<\/p>\n<p>Maury\u2019s cousin, a professor of astronomy,<br \/>\nwho at a holiday dinner refused<br \/>\nto believe Clinton lost,<br \/>\nblaming either Russia,<br \/>\nmaking a whole lot of trouble a long way away,<br \/>\nor else the Electoral College,<br \/>\ninvalidating one more romantic vote<br \/>\ncast alone in Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage Metal vintage metal tins in iTunes sour ends like blood or B12 supplements iron ass-shots mom got yet mostly what was spinning in my Discman back then in the back of our four-door drowning out fighting with Smashing Pumpkins doubling down in mid-career, crawling from forge to table, mini-Moloch\u2019s ignorant alloy automatic transmission accompanying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[346,349],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two poems - The Manchester Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904&page=2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two poems - The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vintage Metal vintage metal tins in iTunes sour ends like blood or B12 supplements iron ass-shots mom got yet mostly what was spinning in my Discman back then in the back of our four-door drowning out fighting with Smashing Pumpkins doubling down in mid-career, crawling from forge to table, mini-Moloch\u2019s ignorant alloy automatic transmission accompanying [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Manchester Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-13T20:28:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-22T17:34:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carl Watts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carl Watts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904\",\"name\":\"Two poems - The Manchester Review\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-13T20:28:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-22T17:34:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/a9021a3248f08f772e930ec229a030d5\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=8904\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Manchester Review\",\"description\":\"The Manchester Review\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/a9021a3248f08f772e930ec229a030d5\",\"name\":\"Carl Watts\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/wp-includes\/images\/blank.gif\",\"caption\":\"Carl Watts\"},\"description\":\"Carl Watts is from Ontario. 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