{"id":5205,"date":"2014-12-15T04:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-711166-2356953.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2015-03-24T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:42:33","slug":"indonesia-september-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/indonesia-september-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia, September 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"
please, scrape out
\nthe blood from beneath
\nyour fingernails
\nfill the basin with water
\ntake hold of the soap
\n& wash, remember
\nwhen you did this
\n& traced patterns
\nover the limbs
\nof your children
\n& held them relaxed
\nin the soapy calmness
\nof it all
\nremember the glow
\n& the sounds
\nan almost joy
\nto be floating
\nonce again
\ntake a towel
\nor rag or any clean cloth
\n& dry your hands
\nnow examine them
\nare they clean enough
\nto go to the table
\nto eat & talk of the day
\nif there is no talk
\nif there is only
\nthe grammar of silence
\nthen pray to your god
\n& i will pray
\nto mine<\/p>\n
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please, scrape out the blood from beneath your fingernails fill the basin with water take hold of the soap & wash, remember when you did this & traced patterns over the limbs of your children & held them relaxed in the soapy calmness of it all remember the glow & the sounds an almost joy to be floating once again take a towel or rag or any clean cloth & dry your hands now examine them are they clean enough to go to the table to eat & talk of the day if there is no talk if there is only the grammar of silence then pray to your god & i will pray to mine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[363,1050],"tags":[932,1055],"yoast_head":"\n