{"id":8143,"date":"2009-05-09T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8143"},"modified":"2009-05-09T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T15:22:06","slug":"warsan-shire-day-thirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8143","title":{"rendered":"Warsan Shire: day thirty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>day thirty. | by Warsan Shire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>your aunt gave birth<br \/>\nto still cities<br \/>\nhiroshima a cyst in her stomach<br \/>\nmogadishu a lump in her breast<br \/>\neveryone in your family<br \/>\ntold her to<br \/>\nstop<br \/>\nloving<br \/>\nso hard<br \/>\nyou won&#8217;t find a man who wants<br \/>\nto kiss an atlas<br \/>\ndont map out stars on your back<br \/>\nlike that<br \/>\nwhere you gonna find<br \/>\na man who wants to join<br \/>\nyour constellations with his tongue<br \/>\npush out falestine from under your<br \/>\ntongue xayati<br \/>\nlet damascus drip from your neck<br \/>\nand wash out the havana of<br \/>\nyour ribs<br \/>\nyour dreams are too large<br \/>\ntoo big<br \/>\nstifiling<br \/>\nthey make everyone around you<br \/>\nhold their breath<br \/>\nwhat man wants a woman<br \/>\ncovered in continents<br \/>\nteeth small colonies<br \/>\nstomach an island<br \/>\nwhat man wants to<br \/>\nwatch the world<br \/>\nfrom his bedroom<br \/>\nface a small riot<br \/>\nhands a civil war<br \/>\narms freckled<br \/>\nwith an immigrants story home<br \/>\nbehind your ears<br \/>\na refugee camp<br \/>\na body littered entirely<br \/>\nwith ugly things<\/p>\n<p>but god,<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t she wear the world well. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/warsanshire.blogspot.com\/\">read more poetry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/warsanshire\">listen to readings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>day thirty. | by Warsan Shire your aunt gave birth to still cities hiroshima a cyst in her stomach mogadishu a lump in her breast everyone in your family told her to stop loving so hard you won&#8217;t find a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-27l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8147,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}