{"id":7944,"date":"2018-07-05T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7944"},"modified":"2018-07-05T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T05:39:11","slug":"stardumb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7944","title":{"rendered":"Stardumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alex Pickens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snorting stardust and cracking hyperspace<br \/>\nTearing up time continuums with a drag race<br \/>\nRunning rings around Saturn and blue Neptune<br \/>\nSpeedsters shootings stars of hydrogen fusion boosters<br \/>\nSlingshotting out of groovitational fields until our smiles<br \/>\nStretch tight across our skulls, and smoke leaks out<br \/>\nOf the amplifiers and nostrils with our doobies askew<br \/>\nLater we\u2019ll get loose and hang from Orion\u2019s belt<br \/>\nAnd make wishes and flick coins into black holes<br \/>\nWatch them stretch while we down another moonshine &#8212;<br \/>\nWake up in Laughing Sam\u2019s Astroid with some android<br \/>\nA few stars misplaced, nebulae-brained, with stretched face<br \/>\nSpace is dark and empty, but we laugh when they tell us<br \/>\nBecause where there are supernovas there is stardust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEX PICKENS<\/strong> graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and a B.S. in economics from James Madison University. His poems have been published in <em>Tuck Magazine<\/em> and <em>Gardy Loo<\/em> and his screenplay <em>Black Friday<\/em> was an honorable mention at the national 2017 Screenplay Festival. He is currently working on a novel and another screenplay and writes poetry when he is mentally unstable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Pickens &nbsp; &nbsp; Snorting stardust and cracking hyperspace Tearing up time continuums with a drag race Running rings around Saturn and blue Neptune Speedsters shootings stars of hydrogen fusion boosters Slingshotting out of groovitational fields until our smiles Stretch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=7944\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":7939,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-248","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944","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=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7952,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944\/revisions\/7952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}