{"id":2953,"date":"2024-01-03T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:40:50","slug":"dark-marilyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=2953","title":{"rendered":"Dark Marilyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png?resize=676%2C451&amp;ssl=1 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DARK MARILYN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our sweet matter to anti-matter<br>the gilded cage gridded, blocks, contains<br>epitome of class, pleasure and power<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always six paces behind, a life of service<br>I brushed by them one east end afternoon<br>As Charles and Nigella floated by<br><br>Like peacocks emerging from a stairwell<br>Their expensive coats azure blue, bejewelled<br>At a secret view of Conran\u2019s new restaurant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stood watching my artist friend imitate Chagall<br>Stair painted for the decorative pleasure of diners<br>Indian and Jewish colours swirling like feathers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A car waiting above to return her to a fake kitchen<br>A fake marriage with fake lighting, fake cooking<br>Performing normality in front of chauffer and chef<br><br>The ringmaster always in control, labour doesn\u2019t work<br>A Thatcherite generation child lost to trauma<br>Washed up in a promotional video that became life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decorous, dysfunctional, abused, depressed<br>Then trapped in a paparazzi shot forever choked<br>Mouth dripping chocolate like fake blood<br><br>Dark Marilyn<br>A new chocolate bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARK MARILYN Our sweet matter to anti-matterthe gilded cage gridded, blocks, containsepitome of class, pleasure and power Always six paces behind, a life of serviceI brushed by them one east end afternoonAs Charles and Nigella floated by Like peacocks emerging from a stairwellTheir expensive coats azure blue, bejewelledAt a secret view of Conran\u2019s new restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken-city","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-LD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}