{"id":445,"date":"2011-03-09T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-06-10T00:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:27:53","slug":"dead-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Dead North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead North M1 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Braided like D.N.A.
\nwe flicker in a northbound lane
\ntwined like flax
\nwoven with fertilizer lorries, flat-loads
\ntankers and porta-kabins
\nunder digitised words
\n‘salt spreading’<\/p>\n

Capital’s crawling artery
\nbunged northward creeps
\neach vein full of despatch
\ntall orders, whims and haste
\nprecision marketing targets
\nthe next truck reads
\nREALITY: realitygroup.com<\/p>\n

I couldn’t make this up.
\nWe pass Reality
\nand then ‘Real Distribution Solutions’
\nbefore skidding past ‘Future Logistics’
\nthere is another script being read here
\nThe exhausts liming the banks with its breath.
\nWe are all headed dead North<\/p>\n

Scott’s hand on the ledger waits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dead North M1 7 p.m. Braided like D.N.A. we flicker in a northbound lane twined like flax woven with fertilizer lorries, flat-loads tankers and porta-kabins under digitised words ‘salt spreading’ Capital’s crawling artery bunged northward creeps each vein full of despatch tall orders, whims and haste precision marketing targets the next truck reads REALITY: realitygroup.com…<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-a-day","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-7b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}