{"id":47593,"date":"2019-10-06T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=47593"},"modified":"2019-10-06T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:27:46","slug":"poems-by-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/poems-by-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"READ LOCAL First\u00a0represents Utah\u2019s\u00a0most comprehensive collection of\u00a0celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This month we bring you\u00a0Rose Nelson, SLC-based poet and artist. They are an active member of the Wanting to<\/span> Die<\/span> Poetry Club<\/em>, a group that celebrates and promotes the work of local poets and artists.<\/p>\n

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if you touch the roof of my mouth with your finger tip you could win a prize<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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granted, it would just be another lie<\/h4>\n

like the time I told you my tongue would cure your headache<\/h4>\n

or that time you said I was kind<\/h4>\n

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my radiator exploded<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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dirt water \u2014 out of my home\u2019s bronze tit<\/h4>\n

the great indoor weather event<\/h4>\n

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when we heard our landlord was dead<\/h4>\n

we both saw him just\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 expiring<\/h4>\n

in his kitchen<\/h4>\n

next to the counter full of cigarettes, prescription pills, and cat hair<\/h4>\n

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we had no heat for eleven days<\/h4>\n

and he died on his motorcycle<\/h4>\n

not at home<\/h4>\n

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and it was several months after he died that the radiator just cracked<\/h4>\n

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his house\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in shock<\/h4>\n

before starting to mourn<\/h4>\n

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your overwhelming desire for a woman-shaped thing <\/strong><\/h4>\n

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you tell me, in a long and roundabout way,<\/h4>\n

that you want to masturbate into a woman-shaped thing<\/h4>\n

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but that the woman part is being difficult- it lets you know<\/h4>\n

that your ardent desire to masturbate into it is inadequate, somehow<\/h4>\n

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this frightens you<\/h4>\n

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you wonder, out loud, why these woman-shaped things will not allow you<\/h4>\n

to masturbate into them<\/h4>\n

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you say that you would take any woman-shaped thing- any at all<\/h4>\n

so why, you ask, are there no woman-shaped things that want you to masturbate into them<\/h4>\n

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even an ugly one, you say, even an ugly woman-shaped thing would be enough<\/h4>\n

so long as you could masturbate into it<\/h4>\n

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you wonder, again out loud<\/h4>\n

using the word \u2018sex\u2019 like it means something to you<\/h4>\n

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humblebrag<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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that quarter-second noise you make when you cum<\/h4>\n

half-surprised and sweaty<\/h4>\n

clutching a winning horse ticket<\/h4>\n

and saying what a hard race it was<\/h4>\n

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waiting on the Wasatch Fault<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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sometimes the TRAX car shakes my home<\/h4>\n

and I wake up sure that it is here<\/h4>\n

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that earthly tremor-<\/h4>\n

the valley in orgasm<\/h4>\n

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some times the build up starts early in the morning<\/h4>\n

and I feel the mountains tense their legs beneath me<\/h4>\n

and the scaly animal in my chest<\/h4>\n

starts to shiver and molt<\/h4>\n

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on these days the tension recedes by evening<\/h4>\n

with the ground left- unsatisfied and shrill<\/h4>\n

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and that animal near my sternum eats its molt<\/h4>\n

so that nothing goes to waste<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if you touch the roof of my mouth with your finger tip you could win a prize<\/p>\n

granted, it would just be another lie
\nlike the time I told you my tongue would cure your headache
\nor that time you said I was kind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1566,"featured_media":47594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-arts","category-read-local-first"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rose-Author-Pic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 13:58:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47593"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47602,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47593\/revisions\/47602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}