{"id":3996,"date":"2020-01-12T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2020-01-12T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:50:46","slug":"in-the-morning-we-make-a-plant-based-protein-smoothie-with-every-magnesium-by-kari-a-flickinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2020\/01\/12\/in-the-morning-we-make-a-plant-based-protein-smoothie-with-every-magnesium-by-kari-a-flickinger\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Morning, We Make a Plant-Based Protein Smoothie with Every Magnesium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0103201132\"<\/p>\n

Picture Credit & Poem by Kari A. Flickinger<\/p>\n

In the Morning, We Make a Plant-Based Protein Smoothie with Every Magnesium<\/h4>\n

We Need [Vitamin A, D, E, Ribo, K, Sodium, No\u2014Phosphorus (Lines Across the Darkening Sky<\/em>), Biotin, Zero Cholesterol Ol Ol, Iron]\u2014Sides[Chosen in Leaving]\u2014Which We Proceed to Spill on the [Cracks are How? This Doesn\u2019t Add. They May Rest Where the Lamps Leave Us…] Way to the Car; Then We Sit in Traffic through the Tunnel, Always Remembering to Turn on the Vehicle Lights [Caldecott Bore 3, Bore 4; (My Lights Need Your Lights Need Affectionate Non-Horn Panging) Maintain Distance. Never Knees-Length of Affection;]. \/\/\/ Once Over the Ridge, We Can Finally Pierce the Bounteous Blinding Grey Heat of the Underworld Beside Our Boastful, Pliant and Broiling Sea<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

It has been following
\nall our steps. And still<\/p>\n

radio silence. Switch in the vehicle and stalking
\nus at every turn; this shadow sizzles
\na tune. A gorged germ of unreal command.<\/p>\n

And keep breathing through<\/p>\n

the mess of existing. It never evaporates the way
\nthe girl in the meditation app says it should
\nor the way the psychologist said the meditation
\napp would make it all<\/p>\n

siphon out. Madness and fire. The chatter
\nof the steel birds above.<\/p>\n

The lobbed-off tree nightmares. Shadows keep up in waves.
\nIn commercial white-strip-toothed grins, the ponytail force
\nof grotesque painted teacups tail you. The parody is same
\nthick bisque, turquoise carnelian lids. Our face becomes<\/p>\n

a sarcophagus (you saw in a museum
\nwhen you were thirty.) False<\/p>\n

nails wield these lines. We (the plural bit) look up
\nin a mirror sky, we watch ourselves flicker<\/p>\n

and waste. We churn luck from haste. Love from
\nthe gristle of a flour-fried chicken (wings)
\nwhole and index-imprinted sign-in nodules.
\nFrom the hollows of a half-full beer bottle.<\/p>\n

We go as ice caps and caged.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zip death up in ice-to-coal logo-t-shirt rage and too smooth
\nboot leather. Unwind the sea with a predilection
\nfor symbol divination. The sharp prick of the edge
\nof our volcano. We all die easy as the flick of our<\/p>\n

remote selves. And we expand to two watching each death outside ourselves<\/p>\n

and three watching and four and eight and nineteen and thirty thousand;
\nthe whole heap of us watch ourselves give permission
\nto pray from our backs while it hunts.<\/p>\n

But the catch: there\u2019s no surveillance.<\/p>\n

I watch you
\nand you watch me.<\/p>\n

To rationalize, it pretends we had some power when the last line<\/p>\n

fails. It left something in each skull but these
\nshadows have burrowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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