{"id":13105,"date":"2019-10-10T08:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-blood\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:33:50","slug":"my-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/my-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"My Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-441x294.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6425cb88812ee25acdbcc49464b55517-10x7.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>My blood<\/strong><\/span><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>by Sutputra Radheye<\/em><\/p>\n<p>poets are sleeping<br \/>with flowers in gardens across brothels<br \/>when the rest of the city-<br \/>crumbles like pieces of bread<br \/>falling in the fire of communalism.<\/p>\n<p>Their beds are warm like their flesh<br \/>as the scandalous lips wear their skin <br \/>dragging their words to the climax junction<br \/>of neon sigh-sparkling impotency.<\/p>\n<p>I despise the poetry of aesthetics <br \/>With collars of authority tied its neck.<br \/>I am free like the verses of Neruda<br \/>the words of Nabarun<br \/>the melody of Hemanga.<br \/>Execute my poetry. Read it not.<br \/>I penetrated the blood of my comrades<br \/>To conceive these poems. <br \/>Fire of the burning harvest flows in its cell. <br \/>Dynamite of the mines- its body.<br \/>Touch it, and your post-mortem report-<br \/>history will print to burn.<\/p>\n<p>I am a madman. <br \/>With chalk in my hand<br \/>I will paint all streets in protest<br \/>For killing the crows.<br \/>The advertisements of ministry<br \/>Stitched on the torn backs of poor<br \/>I will tear as my hands were of Narsimha.<\/p>\n<p>My revolution is my word.<br \/>Each student, each beating heart<br \/>Once taught to love will continue.<br \/>Kill me. I have a weak body.<br \/>With each drop of my falling blood<br \/>A new revolution will grow<br \/>In the urban concretes<br \/>And rural roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blood by Sutputra Radheye poets are sleepingwith flowers in gardens across brothelswhen the rest of the city-crumbles like pieces of breadfalling in the fire of communalism&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":13103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}