{"id":18037,"date":"2021-11-25T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=18037"},"modified":"2021-11-25T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:19:12","slug":"the-rise-of-the-band-geeks-episode-7-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/11\/25\/the-rise-of-the-band-geeks-episode-7-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Band Geeks, Episode 7: The Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    An undisclosed photo of a soldier from the Army (source unknown).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    From the tumultuous tides that churn and swirl in a slurry we hailed \/ Prowling growlers and missiles of ice \/ That slosh in the slush of hushed currents \/ In frenetic eternity.<\/li>\n

  2. Readily we traversed \/ The pulsating subsurface and tenuous night \/ The venous channels and crumpled paths \/ Under silent symphonies and sonorous skies \/ Until we found you.<\/li>\n
  3. A subtle force, we convened \/ Upon the bristled surface below the fickle water-sky \/ Across the ground that sops up shrill water \/ Or rejects it, eschews it into whiteness \/ Scattered across the tensile blades \/ erupting from matted black nuggets.<\/li>\n
  4. North of the end of the shifting stew we mounted \/ Our tuneful armor \/ Our wooden round shells hollowed by erosive war \/ Our skins stretched so finely clumsy flesh would rend \/ The precious surface before which we stewed \/ Our moldable bodies balanced securely between our vessels and our weapons.<\/li>\n
  5. Kindred warriors deluded by our stillness \/ Fused with our minds and our spiral limbs \/ Their blurred hands and cylinder knives \/ Rounded blades that sluice and pound \/ The sparse depths into oblivion \/ Elevated us with their hastily wrought words and \/ Thunderous melodies.<\/li>\n
  6. Laconic, we allowed \/ You to swarm around us intrigued by our plush plumpness and stitched-on jubilee \/ To accumulate in trickles and honey droves toward our piano demeanor.<\/li>\n
  7. In this soft stupor we encased you \/ Ensnared you in stuffed cages \/ Choked you gently into piles of fluff.<\/li>\n
  8. Now we breathe into your accordion lungs \/ We snuggle within your marimba memories \/ We wrap our tendrils round your cymbal hearts \/ We feed you \/ We cultivate you \/ We drive you toward the day when the city folds in on itself and the clouded day becomes our night \/ We whet our spongy forms against the steel and the temptation and the war chant \/ We fashion your limbs into brass weapons \/ Your voices into roars \/ We disassemble you and rewire you and arrange your valves in sinister permutations \/ We polish you until we are not of you but are you \/ Until the day when the stadium submits and all of you, all of you, answer to us.\u00a0\u00a0We are coming– for you.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    From the tumultuous tides that churn and swirl in a slurry we hailed \/ Prowling growlers and missiles of ice \/ That slosh in the slush of hushed currents \/ In frenetic eternity. Readily we traversed \/ The pulsating subsurface and tenuous night \/ The venous channels and crumpled paths \/ Under silent symphonies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":17619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1221,1773,1772,1752,15,1072,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18037"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18116,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18037\/revisions\/18116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}