{"id":3246,"date":"2012-05-30T19:23:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:33:18","slug":"e-michael-desilets-tom-sums-it-up-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2012\/05\/e-michael-desilets-tom-sums-it-up-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"E. Michael Desilets&#8217; &#8220;Tom sums it up on Saturday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tom sums it up on Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;\">His brain was a big gray balloon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and he let go<\/p>\n<p>of the string<\/p>\n<p>his frontal lobes now sky high<\/p>\n<p>as well as atrophied. Whose fault<\/p>\n<p>was this? There was no one<\/p>\n<p>to blame. No one<\/p>\n<p>whose name he could remember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He unplugged the phone and shoved it<\/p>\n<p>under the bed. He was exhausted<\/p>\n<p>from pretending to know<\/p>\n<p>all the voices. The universe was full<\/p>\n<p>of cousins who had his number. Still<\/p>\n<p>Groucho said Hello, I must be going.<\/p>\n<p>His street clothes were gone<\/p>\n<p>from the closet. Maybe the street was gone<\/p>\n<p>as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The psycho squad also had his number.<\/p>\n<p>They made him make a clock.<\/p>\n<p>He got the numbers<\/p>\n<p>all wrong and it wasn&#8217;t Daliesque enough<\/p>\n<p>to earn him points for overall<\/p>\n<p>artistic achievement. He&#8217;ll never drive<\/p>\n<p>again or do crossword puzzles<\/p>\n<p>he heard them whisper officiously<\/p>\n<p>like the nuns his first week in school<\/p>\n<p>before the yardsticks and the times tables<\/p>\n<p>and the litanies. Repeat after me.<\/p>\n<p>If he practiced maybe<\/p>\n<p>everything would be<\/p>\n<p>awl wright. Alright.<\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 E. Michael Desilets, 2012 <\/strong>from &#8220;<strong>Nasty Stuff&#8221; <\/strong>published by <strong>Kattywompus Press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom sums it up on Saturday His brain was a big gray balloon and he let go of the string his frontal lobes now sky high as well as atrophied. Whose fault was this? There was no one to blame. No one whose name he could remember. &nbsp; He unplugged the phone and shoved it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1056,1049,337,1048,1051,1047,13,7,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-3246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-nasty-stuff","8":"tag-brother","9":"tag-e-michael-desilets","10":"tag-frontal-lobe-dementia","11":"tag-kattywompus-press","12":"tag-picks-disease","13":"tag-poetry","14":"tag-solace","15":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}