baby \/ if you were to<\/p>\n
shoot \/ and <\/p>\n
I left behind me a <\/p>\n
392-foot-long <\/p>\n
trail of blood \/ a wedding <\/p>\n
train \/ a slug\u2019s <\/p>\n
slick mucus \/ a tongue <\/p>\n
still singing <\/p>\n
tell me \/ \u00bfhow much <\/p>\n
would I have lost? baby \/ if you were to shoot \/ and I left behind me a 392-foot-long trail of blood \/ a wedding train \/ a slug\u2019s slick mucus \/ a tongue still singing tell me \/ \u00bfhow much would I have lost? John Manuel Arias is a gay Costa Rican\/ Uruguayan writer and poet [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[232,233,149],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-the-long-way-around-by-thales-of-from-issaquah","tag-us","tag-wikicommons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nJohn Manuel Arias is a gay Costa Rican\/ Uruguayan writer and poet from Washington DC, currently living in San Jos\u00e9. He studied at Pace University. His work has appeared in Rogue Agent Journal, Rust + Moth <\/em>and The James Franco Review<\/em>, with new poetry from this collection appearing in the forthcoming issues the After Happy Hour Review, Tinderbox Journal, Polaris Magazine, After the Pause, Red Paint Hill<\/em> and Crack the Spine. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"