{"id":2603,"date":"2014-08-21T02:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T02:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:19:40","slug":"cold-night-warm-hamburgers-by-cheryl-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/cold-night-warm-hamburgers-by-cheryl-buchanan\/","title":{"rendered":"COLD NIGHT, WARM HAMBURGERS by Cheryl Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2604 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cb.jpg\" alt=\"cb\" width=\"256\" height=\"253\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 256px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 256\/253;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">COLD NIGHT, WARM HAMBURGERS<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Cheryl Buchanan<\/p>\n<p>The day my dad moved in with the other woman,<br \/>\nI became a vegetarian.<br \/>\n<em>I guess my mom was right about some things,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>like Cisco, bum wine, liquid crack. Gravity,<\/em><br \/>\nI mumbled, while the runningback\u2019s meaty hands<br \/>\nclumsily let slip hunks of my hair, fat strands dipping<br \/>\ninto hot chunky remains of the Homecoming party.<\/p>\n<p>I hurled on all fours, grabbing the earth,<br \/>\nuntil suddenly I was struck by the utter atrocity<br \/>\nof hamburgers. The impurity of flesh, my birth,<br \/>\nthis pollution, all piling steamy onto gleaming AstroTurf.<br \/>\nHow disgusting and dirty we all had become, cannibals,<br \/>\ncarnivores, warm, pink and rotten.<\/p>\n<p>The midnight moonlight exposed my poison<br \/>\nheaved on uninhabitable, plastic grass<br \/>\nwhile the runningback just kept reliving his game,<br \/>\na glorified catch at the end of the half.<br \/>\nBut, I knew the Hail Mary. It was all in the pass,<br \/>\nspinning graceless and groundless,<br \/>\nungripped between thieves.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Buchanan is a former attorney from Los Angeles and current MFA candidate and Writing Instructor at Emerson College. After having worked in social justice for over a decade she is interested in promoting the power of literature and poetry in marginalized communities. She presently leads a creative writing workshop at a Boston homeless center. In May 2014 she received the Academy of American Poets Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Buchanan is a former attorney from Los Angeles and current MFA candidate and Writing Instructor at Emerson College. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erotic-poems","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}