{"id":1936,"date":"2012-01-17T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:37:46","slug":"dark-secrets-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/01\/dark-secrets-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Secrets of the Universe by Steve Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/01\/limits-of-control\/\">Limits of Control<\/a> by Devon-based experimental poet Steve Spence. Steve&#8217;s poems use collage to brilliant, and often humourous, effect.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font style=\"size: 150%; color: #333333;\"><\/p>\n<h2>Dark Secrets of the Universe<\/h2>\n<p>It was a well-planned and co-ordinated attack<br \/>\nbut translation, like politics, remains the art of the<br \/>\npossible. When you are sure that the fish is ready<br \/>\nthen you should draw it towards the shore. This<br \/>\ncould turn out to be the biggest disaster for many<br \/>\ndecades yet it&#8217;s a great day to be a particle physicist.<br \/>\nDid you know that the Parthenon was originally<br \/>\na bank? This time it was my float that began to<br \/>\nquiver. When the onion begins to brown, add the<br \/>\nstained tomato pulp and leave to cool for five<br \/>\nminutes, stirring all the time. A spokesman for<br \/>\nthe White House said it strongly condemned the<br \/>\nviolence. Such fantasies repel us or leave us cold<br \/>\nyet a nameless scent was now curiously mixed<br \/>\nwith another scarcely less offensive odour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem from Steve Spence&#8217;s 2011 collection <i>Limits of Control<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16201,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/16201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}