{"id":2739,"date":"2022-03-13T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2022-03-13T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:12:29","slug":"armageddon-blues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I wrote the poem “Armageddon Blues,” which was published in Salamander Poetry Journal in Winter 2018-2019. It doesn’t seem to have lost its relevance! The enduring question: Is there time to slice the cucumber?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARMAGEDDON BLUES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If my nerves were sturdier,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if I could let your apocalypse talk
roll off my back,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if my favorite nightcap were plunging off a cliff
and being pulled back,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if I didn’t like to kick off my boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the Ultimate Fight weren’t your morning caffeine,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if you didn’t love to troll and tease me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

if I didn’t ask, for the sake of beauty and continuity,
Is there time to slice the cucumber,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

we might roll together in bellylaugh when you predict, They’ll
just take out New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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