{"id":170,"date":"2022-05-01T01:12:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T05:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/?p=170"},"modified":"2022-05-01T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T05:12:58","slug":"cwd15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/cwd15\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-692x1024.png\" alt=\"A page from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Over the poem is a rough pencil sketch of the head and neck of a person with short curly hair.\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-692x1024.png 692w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-768x1137.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-940x1391.png 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15-400x592.png 400w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/792\/2022\/04\/cwd15.png 1938w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By @P1KOH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or<br \/>\nStockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland,<br \/>\nI descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.<\/p>\n<p>I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries,<br \/>\nI see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison\u2019d splint, the fetich,<br \/>\nand the obi.<br \/>\nI see African and Asiatic towns,<br \/>\nI see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,<br \/>\nI see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio,<br \/>\nI see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in<br \/>\ntheir huts,<br \/>\nI see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,<br \/>\nI see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat,<br \/>\nI see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, see<br \/>\nthe caravans toiling onward,<br \/>\nI see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks.<br \/>\nI look on chisell\u2019d histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut<br \/>\nin slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks,<br \/>\nI see at Memphis mummy-pits containing mummies embalm\u2019d,<br \/>\nswathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,<br \/>\nI look on the fall\u2019n Theban, the large-ball\u2019d eyes, the side-drooping<br \/>\nneck, the hands folded across the breast.<\/p>\n<p>I see all the menials of the earth, laboring,<br \/>\nI see all the prisoners in the prisons,<br \/>\nI see the defective human bodies of the earth,<br \/>\nThe blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,<br \/>\nThe pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth,<br \/>\nThe helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By @P1KOH I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again. I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries, I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison\u2019d splint, the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5567,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackout-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ctrlwaltdelete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}