{"id":267,"date":"2015-08-17T01:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jick.net\/wordpress\/?p=267"},"modified":"2016-02-03T02:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T02:12:41","slug":"black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to light the emptiness<br \/>\na dozen billion years;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tired of burning now.<br \/>\nMy incandescence dies.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the changes in my heart<br \/>\nneutrinos rise and swarm,<br \/>\npreparing to carry away<br \/>\nmy will to be warm.<br \/>\nThey fly.<br \/>\nI\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 im<br \/>\nplode<br \/>\nfolding down upon myself<br \/>\nlike a detonated building<br \/>\nmore inward than imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I am the id of the universe,<br \/>\nblack hole,<br \/>\nthe cosmic drain<br \/>\nsucking in suns and dust.<br \/>\nI am the singularity<br \/>\nthat must and yet cannot exist.<br \/>\nUnder the great gulp<br \/>\numbrella, my event horizon,<br \/>\nnone are seen again.<\/p>\n<p>Photons like panicked bugs<br \/>\non a four-dimensional balloon<br \/>\nrush to escape with their entropy.<br \/>\nThey forget:<br \/>\nevery direction in my field<br \/>\nis back<br \/>\nto<br \/>\nblack hole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(1974 or so)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to light the emptiness a dozen billion years; I&#8217;m tired of burning now. My incandescence dies. Out of the changes in my heart neutrinos rise and swarm, preparing to carry away my will to be warm. They fly. I\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 im plode folding down upon myself like a detonated<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=267\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1974-1979","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}