{"id":8252,"date":"2020-07-18T15:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8252"},"modified":"2020-07-18T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:28:54","slug":"in-the-lands-of-landfill-lords","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8252","title":{"rendered":"In the lands of landfill lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Namit V. Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The very land of landfill lords<br \/>\nis alive;<br \/>\nA crude creature in itself,<br \/>\nThe sizzling scrap and smoke<br \/>\nits skin<br \/>\nand the bubbling browny broth<br \/>\nits blood.<\/p>\n<p>The landfill lords,<br \/>\na hundred half living<br \/>\ndead dreaming skeletons,<br \/>\nchurn and churn<br \/>\nand split apart<br \/>\nby the great crude<br \/>\ncreature\u2019s heavy heart.<\/p>\n<p>The landfill lords<br \/>\nown everything<br \/>\nleft unowned,<br \/>\nand digging by<br \/>\ntheir destined graves<br \/>\nstill search<br \/>\nfor something shiny<br \/>\nin their worldfuls of dirt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NAMIT V. SHAH,<\/strong> from Ahmedabad, India, has been writing poetry almost five years now. Some of his poems have been featured on online poetry sites such as \u2018PoetrySoup\u2019 and \u2018HelloPoetry.\u2019 His poems apply an acerbic approach towards expression and exude a certain sense of brevity, all the while remaining visually engaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namit V. Shah &nbsp; &nbsp; The very land of landfill lords is alive; A crude creature in itself, The sizzling scrap and smoke its skin and the bubbling browny broth its blood. The landfill lords, a hundred half living dead &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":8249,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-296","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8252","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=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8261,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8252\/revisions\/8261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}