{"id":48921,"date":"2014-11-17T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=48921"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:29:31","slug":"falluja-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/11\/falluja-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Falluja Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will lie here,<br \/>\nburied below Falluja<br \/>\nfor a long time.<br \/>\nBeing dead,<br \/>\nI am in no hurry.<br \/>\nYou can collect those other corpses,<br \/>\nrebuild the city above me<br \/>\nand proclaim victory.<\/p>\n<p>I watched with amusement<br \/>\nas they used a grappling hook<br \/>\nto drag Ali away<br \/>\nbecause they were afraid<br \/>\nhe was booby-trapped.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know the real meaning<br \/>\nof that word.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know how much explosive<br \/>\nI have packed inside me.<\/p>\n<p>I am a patient man<br \/>\nwith a long memory<br \/>\nand nothing else to do.<br \/>\nEven from this awkward position<br \/>\nI will conceive many children<br \/>\nwho will honor their father.<br \/>\n_____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tom Greening:<\/strong> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will lie here,<br \/>\nburied below Falluja<br \/>\nfor a long time.<br \/>\nBeing dead,<br \/>\nI am in no hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}