This is a poem written several years ago, back in May 2011. I came across it while looking through some old files. It resonates just at the moment, when my Facebook feed is flooded with paeans for Prince.<\/p>\n
At the Palais Royale<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyone can use these words in any situation. You kind of have already been there. Prince is destroying My background was askew. I can tell you every top ten soul song from that year. Sade disappoints me This is a poem written several years ago, back in May 2011. I came across it while looking through some old files. It resonates just at the moment, when my Facebook feed is flooded with paeans for Prince. At the Palais Royale Anyone can use these words in any situation. These words are in no … Continue reading “At the Palais Royale”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[8],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","tag-poetry","tag-zettel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-y","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThese words are in no way special.<\/p>\n
\nSay yes or no, uninterrupted.
\nThis guy is, but that is not.<\/p>\n
\nthe minds of our Christian children,
\nbecause he was sexually deviant.
\nYou know Superman.
\nScooby doo.
\nThat was racy.<\/p>\n
\nThere were always fights,
\nbut the bus driver didn’t care.
\nOne of my first memories.
\nThe craziest shit —
\nit was stamps, too.
\nWe’d alternate mornings.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s really not about making the music.<\/p>\n
\nWhite enough.
\nBeautiful, it reminded me of a concentration camp.
\nIt reminded me of the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"