{"id":7538,"date":"2020-06-25T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:48:15","slug":"the-house-is-old-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2020\/06\/25\/the-house-is-old-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The house is old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I sit in another house whose character is<\/em><br><em>just now forming as we live here &amp;<\/em><br><em>dust &amp; scrub &amp; clean &amp; wash windows or<\/em><br><em>just live together now our enemies have gone<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u2013 enemies because that\u2019s what friends become<\/em><br><em>sometimes when they leave us or we leave them<\/em><br><em>&amp; cast one another out of our lives like<\/em><br><em>leaves cluttering the lawn, the grass gone too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u2013because we are sometimes difficult to live with.<\/em><br><em>we gossip sometimes &amp; tear one another into<\/em><br><em>tiny rags we wear in preference to warm clothing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u2014furs &amp; scruffy rugs made into hair boas<\/em><br><em>(like snakes) to wrap around us in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>\u2013 enemy is not a word of hate, it\u2019s what we call<\/em><br><em>our lovers when we don\u2019t love them any more<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>now they\u2019ve rejected us, we live here,<\/em><br><em>we think of the other house.<\/em><br><em>the house is old.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>it\u2019s like an old person we are getting to know<\/em><br><em>for the first time, or the second<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>above the house a hawk dives down\u00a0<\/em><br><em>for a mouse beside the pond, beside<\/em><br><em>the garden, the rosa rugosa, the<\/em><br><em>blackberries, beside the house where<\/em><br><em>the faggots live with their friends.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ron Schreiber<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit in another house whose character isjust now forming as we live here &amp;dust &amp; scrub &amp; clean &amp; wash windows orjust live together now our enemies have gone \u2013 enemies because that\u2019s what friends becomesometimes when they leave us or we leave them&amp; cast one another out of our lives likeleaves cluttering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12025,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/12025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}