{"id":30888,"date":"2013-07-25T15:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=30888"},"modified":"2013-12-27T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:06:26","slug":"scottpoem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30888","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>his hair brush my thigh; strokes<br \/>\nbright like citrus fruit flame orange red<br \/>\ni grab a\u00a0handful<br \/>\nof it.\u00a0 wrestling order out of chaos<br \/>\neasier than it seem.<\/p>\n<p>Mama, the welfare lady, riot a\u2019<br \/>\ndoubt mute in the deep a\u2019 the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>he fine. and when he say<br \/>\nwe gon&#8217; be okay i believe.<\/p>\n<p>i braid; he drift in and out of his promises.<br \/>\nsome nights he cain&#8217;t come home.<br \/>\n&#8216;sides:\u00a0<em>the babies<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em>is <em>the nation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>some nights he wear wounds<br \/>\nand funk so we eat good, make love good, and<br \/>\nsmile to show Them we good.<\/p>\n<p>better\u2019n good.<\/p>\n<p><em>baby<\/em> he say <em>we fount it<\/em><br \/>\na whisper all husky-like and i take<br \/>\nin the gifts of the garden<br \/>\nlingering on his breath; calloused hands<br \/>\nagainst my belly rubbing<br \/>\nme like\u00a0a wishing tree so he<br \/>\ncan believe too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>###<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>(Poet darlene anita scott is a regular contributor to <\/em>the jonestown report<em>. Her complete collection of writings and poetry for this site may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=18143\">here<\/a>. She can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:darleneanitascott@gmail.com\"><em>darleneanitascott@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>his hair brush my thigh; strokes bright like citrus fruit flame orange red i grab a\u00a0handful of it.\u00a0 wrestling order out of chaos easier than it seem. Mama, the welfare lady, riot a\u2019 doubt mute in the deep a\u2019 the Pacific. he fine. and when he say we gon&#8217; be okay i believe. i braid; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":30912,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30888","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53358,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30888\/revisions\/53358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}