{"id":1010604,"date":"2021-06-24T20:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=807&preview=true&preview_id=807"},"modified":"2024-11-02T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T01:34:05","slug":"contemporary-sonnet-010101010101-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/contemporary-sonnet-010101010101-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Sonnet #010101010101"},"content":{"rendered":"

I morf<\/strong>ed while speaking ASL (or was that a\/s\/l?)
\nAcross the keys my fingers moved, in ALL CAPS DID I YELL
\nHermaphroditic princess of Marcel Duchamp’s white throne
\nNonplussed by nonsense on the screen, the drivel of a drone.
\nHe asked me “Do u wanna chat?” l asked him, “Can you spell?
\nHe asked “Whut R u Waring?” and I muttered, “Go to Hell.”
\nI judge performance with a pen, its ink as red as blood;
\nIf you say “Insert A in B,’ your name, it will be mud.”
\nHe vowed to be my lackey; and I, his Mistress (“Dork!”)
\nDispatched him to a chat room with a jeweled tuna fork
\nAnd there did bid him to recite, in front of all and sundry,
\nA sonnet from atop his head – no limp iambic blund’ring!
\nHe couldn’t get it up to rhyme (his fountain pen, I mean!)
\nNext thing he did was disconnect, and ne’er again was seen.<\/p>\n

\n

Written in 2007, based on an online chat circa 1990 but apparently one of those “evergreen” things that’s relatable, even today.<\/p>\n

Some things never change.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rated PG-13 for mild, groan-worthy sexual references. No acts of violence were commited with the tuna fork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1010604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:38:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012777,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010604\/revisions\/1012777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010604"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1010604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}