{"id":1710,"date":"2005-12-26T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/12\/26\/its-time-to-fake-the-knowledge-of-how-to-write-a-book\/"},"modified":"2005-12-26T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T16:32:00","slug":"its-time-to-fake-the-knowledge-of-how-to-write-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/12\/26\/its-time-to-fake-the-knowledge-of-how-to-write-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to fake the knowledge of how to write a book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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audrey-kawasaki – grumpy girl<\/a>
Originally uploaded by Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n

Living here, it doesn’t come easy, but I suppose it’s what I have to do until I find the funds to permanently leave. <\/p>\n

Time slowed in the dark bus to the dark trickle of molasses. Travel encased in warmth and looking out at cold, the perfect orange of sodium lights, dirty highway, I felt my chest packed with string. It unraveled as we drove, sliding roughly out of a tiny hole in the center of my back, as if one end was tied to a rib and the other end behind me in the city. Oh the snow, the light crystals of shine that I would gather in handfuls and toss in the air. <\/p>\n

I wanted to run. <\/p>\n

Last night, for the second time in a week, I was to be found spending the night up in a home that was built from the bricks of a tax bracket that lives indifferent to my existence. But unlike the bed in Outremont that felt comfortable, redolant of music and welcome teeth, the bed here smelled like a museum exhibit, like I had crept into it past glass or a red velvet rope, all untouched history and neglect.<\/p>\n

I fell asleep as the sun came up like a stone<\/a>, trying to remember Sylvia Plath: <\/p>\n

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful \u2013
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.<\/i><\/p>\n

Soon I’ll have to explain about Outremont, the people who saved my trip and forced me native overnight, breaking my heart and the language barrier with letting me drive, a grand piano, tango lessons, and singing. <\/p>\n

I’m still irritated that I didn’t bring anything back with me.
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audrey-kawasaki – grumpy girl Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. Living here, it doesn’t come easy, but I suppose it’s what I have to do until I find the funds to permanently leave. Time slowed in the dark bus to the dark trickle of molasses. Travel encased in warmth and looking out at cold, the perfect orange … Continue reading “It’s time to fake the knowledge of how to write a book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,157,141,462,14],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-friends","tag-holidays","tag-montreal","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}