{"id":170,"date":"2024-05-04T23:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T22:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2024-05-04T23:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T22:40:43","slug":"stinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Stinking"},"content":{"rendered":"STINKING<br \/><br \/>Is it me?<br \/>I poisoned the mice.<br \/>I put blood thinner<br \/>in their food chain.<br \/>Did I cause this?<br \/>In which dark corner<br \/>do the mice, fighting death<br \/>with imperative life,<br \/>lose.<br \/>I tell myself<br \/>they will be food<br \/>for the worms of flies<br \/>and for liquidising bacteria,<br \/>not for cats or dogs<br \/>or foxes.<br \/>Is it the stinking of a rotting mouse corpse<br \/>or is it a leak from my stoma bag?<br \/><br \/>Is it me<br \/>or the sun beating down<br \/>on the tidal mudflats<br \/>as the river sputters into the creek<br \/>with its odour of rotting algae<br \/>and chemically challenged waste?<br \/>The ducks survive, the swans visit,<br \/>a heron hunts and worms burrow<br \/>into the curve of the banked mud,<br \/>while the heat incubates<br \/>the organic rot<br \/>with a sulphurous and methane fervour.<br \/>It\u2019s either that<br \/>or the seal on my stoma bag has unravelled.<br \/><br \/>Is it me<br \/>or the drains backed up<br \/>behind a dam of grease and old leaves?<br \/>Is the ooze of sewage going primordial?<br \/>Are the hormones and medicines contributing?<br \/>Is some ancient horror, a plague, a chemical gas<br \/>or amalgam of chicken shit, industrial overflow<br \/>and government grant turned into shareholder dividend<br \/>stinking<br \/>or is it a new hole in my stomach?<br \/><br \/>Zolan Quobble<br \/><br \/>March 2024<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STINKING Is it me?I poisoned the mice.I put blood thinnerin their food chain.Did I cause this?In which dark cornerdo the mice, fighting deathwith imperative life,lose.I tell myselfthey will be foodfor the worms of fliesand for liquidising bacteria,not for cats or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/?p=170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[76,82,80,81,39,79,78,75,77],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer-2","tag-corruption","tag-deptford","tag-deptford-creek","tag-poem","tag-poison","tag-sewage","tag-stoma-bag","tag-urban-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zolanquobble.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}