{"id":2215,"date":"2012-01-31T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=2215"},"modified":"2012-02-01T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T08:03:16","slug":"socks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=2215","title":{"rendered":"SOCKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Marina Rubin<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\ni come to work with a duffle bag, sweatpants, running shoes, but the socks are missing. i ask my friends in cubicles, the Equinox, the Lucille Roberts lovers, if anyone has an extra pair. during lunch i splurge on K-mart socks, when i return a surprise pack of athletic four is sitting on my desk. i pick up food from the fridge, the strawberry crunch salad that i brought from home is bow-tied with cold Adidas socks. then a sudden intercom announcement &#8211; someone left socks in the ladies room. while i run to pick them up, another pair is laid out on my keyboard in the shape of a rose, pink nylon socks hang from the phone receiver. later an urgent delivery, box the size of HDTV, inside &#8211; one mickey mouse sock. all day long socks, socks, ankle socks, knee-hi socks, ventilator socks, some new, some worn with holes and smell of feet, spring up, everywhere, in conference rooms, in office supply closets, like snow balls, like ping pong balls. a running joke for the night, i leave the office with socks to last me a lifetime, but the joke is on them, my coworker-pranksters, next time i will ask for panties<br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<strong>MARINA RUBIN<\/strong>\u2019s first chapbook <em>Ode to Hotels<\/em> came out in 2002, followed by <em>Once<\/em> in 2004 and <em>Logic<\/em> in 2007. Her work has appeared in <em>13th Warrior Review<\/em>, <em>Asheville Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Dos Passos Review<\/em>, <em>5AM<\/em>, <em>Coal City<\/em>, <em>Green Hills Literary Lantern<\/em>, <em>Jewish Currents<\/em>, <em>Lillith<\/em>, <em>Pearl<\/em>, <em>Poet Lore<\/em>, <em>Skidrow Penthouse<\/em>, <em>The Portland Review<\/em>, <em>The Worcester Review<\/em> and many more. She is an associate editor of <em>Mudfish<\/em>. She lives in New York City where she works as a headhunter on Wall Street while writing her fourth book, a collection of flash fiction stories. Her website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinarubin.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.marinarubin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marina Rubin i come to work with a duffle bag, sweatpants, running shoes, but the socks are missing. i ask my friends in cubicles, the Equinox, the Lucille Roberts lovers, if anyone has an extra pair. during lunch i &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=2215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2201,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-zJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2215\/revisions\/2265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}