{"id":14542,"date":"2022-12-13T00:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2022-12-17T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:58:52","slug":"poems-by-mark-antony-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=14542","title":{"rendered":"poems by Mark Antony Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Soma and the Unknowing Slave <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I grew up with Huxley tucked in my heart<\/p>\n<p>His brave new world was orderly<\/p>\n<p>Next to degrading urban decay.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I craved his seductive soma<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to explore the outer reaches<\/p>\n<p>I created a possible path way forward<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I grew with Huxley eyeless in north jersey<\/p>\n<p>Forming facts faster than light beams<\/p>\n<p>Finding friendship fleeting and feckless<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But a library is a home when homes are lost<\/p>\n<p>And a library is a church where angels are afraid<\/p>\n<p>And a library is a clinic to close old wounds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Huxley, a nearly blind man, opened my eyes<\/p>\n<p>To the seduction of freedom void of ethics<\/p>\n<p>And what of rights without responsibility<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the slave ignorant to his slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Yes be free but be smart<\/p>\n<p>For a free society depends on more<\/p>\n<p>Than bravery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Be a Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pasta<\/p>\n<p>And the pizza<\/p>\n<p>Get tiring<\/p>\n<p>But not as much<\/p>\n<p>As my whole culture<\/p>\n<p>Boiled down<\/p>\n<p>To a mafia punchline.<\/p>\n<p>Before those morons<\/p>\n<p>Landed at Plymouth<\/p>\n<p>There was<\/p>\n<p>Galileo<\/p>\n<p>Michelangelo<\/p>\n<p>Da Vinci<\/p>\n<p>And hundreds more<\/p>\n<p>Geniuses<\/p>\n<p>Writing, sculpting<\/p>\n<p>And painting history.<\/p>\n<p>We once ruled<\/p>\n<p>The known world<\/p>\n<p>While your ancestors<\/p>\n<p>Were harassing sheep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soma and the Unknowing Slave &nbsp; I grew up with Huxley tucked in my heart His brave new world was orderly Next to degrading urban decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[1595,77],"tags":[1596,1123,1617],"class_list":["post-14542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-74","category-english","tag-egophobia-74","tag-english","tag-mark-antony-rossi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3My","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}