{"id":699,"date":"2016-02-15T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:45:35","slug":"rhumba-to-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Rhumba to the Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no future left in transformation.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re met with insolence and condemnation,<br \/>\nthe awful tearing sound of separation ,<br \/>\nand constant knocking causing bad vibration.<\/p>\n<p>Too late to move, there&#8217;s just too big a stockpile.<br \/>\nSo watch the sky and keep a hand on that dial.<br \/>\nNo need to wear a purgatorial grin.<br \/>\nThe world has cloaked its civil servants in sin.<\/p>\n<p>(chorus)<br \/>\nOh, the dead can&#8217;t rhumba to the bomb.<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re missing.<br \/>\nOh no, the dead can&#8217;t rhumba to the bomb.<br \/>\nHear those elements hissing.<\/p>\n<p>The movies tell you all about survival.<br \/>\nThey make it seem just like a Dead revival.<br \/>\nThey say the strong who want to stay alive will<br \/>\nhang on perhaps a minute more than I will.<\/p>\n<p>Too late to politic, the lines are frozen.<br \/>\nBy atom smashers we have all been chosen.<br \/>\nNo need to wear a radiation-proof suit.<br \/>\nDisintegration makes the clothing point moot.<br \/>\n(chorus)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no future left in transformation. You&#8217;re met with insolence and condemnation, the awful tearing sound of separation , and constant knocking causing bad vibration. Too late to move, there&#8217;s just too big a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=699\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":853,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=853","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":0},"title":"Simply Madness","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Indians will pay for the pipeline. Cleveland is, of course, possessed by gangs. Bomb the glaciers and tax the water. Please pull to the curb and be searched. Mexico will pay for the Alamo. Bowie will not have died in vain. Drill until it hurts and stop the trees.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":552,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=552","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":1},"title":"Mixed Double-cross","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Manchild at the net can't explain his double fault. His lob to the baseline was a bomb. His sudden smashing serve served no one well. In the end he left the court with his balls in his pocket, without love, without advantage, all ties broken.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":272,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=272","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":2},"title":"Tom Thumb and the Bomb","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In his tiny fallout shelter, singing songs like \"Helter Skelter,\" Tom Thumb sits alone and cries, wondering what decides who dies. It was late in twenty-eight; infamy will haunt the date. Skies turned white and mountains tumbled. All the human race was humbled. Now it's narrowed down to one. Earth's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redtinnoodles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/bomb.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":813,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=813","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":3},"title":"Spare Ramparts","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Kind castles create bland rulers. The harsh flag scoffs at victory. Prepare to die by poison ideas. The armor of the future is speed. Pure evil is the fulcrum of doubt. Get over it: forget the Alamo. Loose troops sink ships' shapes. Bomb patterns make lovely quilts. A nation of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":769,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=769","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":4},"title":"From Russia With Love","author":"Rick Young","date":"December 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Does watching Snowden break the law? The government knows what you saw. Will they now brand you as a traitor, haul you off to somewhere later? Once you were a common Joe. Now you're in Guantanamo. Siding with a whistle blower equates you with a bomb thrower. Standing up for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1971,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1971","url_meta":{"origin":699,"position":5},"title":"Hiroshima, Mon Ami","author":"Rick Young","date":"August 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Seventy-five years ago, on this very date, one U.S.-dropped bomb made Japanese incinerate. Some are still alive who survived this momentous\u00a0blast. It may be number one in our atonement for the past. And just three days later came a second mushroom cloud. Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Our worst selves were proud. Yes,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}