{"id":2569,"date":"2025-06-05T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:40:49","slug":"corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fresh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Algor mortis is a cool breeze<br>That went too far<br>Rigor mortis is an ironic erection<br>Yet ultimate impotence<br>Livor mortis is the revenge of gravity<br>Against the arrogance of the leap<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bloat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The last thing the stomach eats is the body itself<br>From the inside out<br>The last meal of a murderer on death row<br>Could not be more savage<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Active decay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">There is nothing so riddled with life as a decomposing corpse<br>The body of Christ lies across England<br>Slain twice<br>And we are the maggots devouring him<br>Animating him<br>The grotesque puppet<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advanced Decay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The flesh is a carnival<br>With an ending supply of booze<br>To the last revellers<br>Who should know better<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skeletonization<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Need I say more?<br>I cannot<br>Even if I need to<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh Algor mortis is a cool breezeThat went too farRigor mortis is an ironic erectionYet ultimate impotenceLivor mortis is the revenge of gravityAgainst the arrogance of the leap Bloat The last thing the stomach eats is the body itselfFrom the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/05\/corpse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}