{"id":312,"date":"2008-12-26T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:02:53","slug":"poem-past-one-oclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/poem-past-one-oclock\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Past one o'clock . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

As we leave behind the economic troubles of 2008, I thought it fitting to post this poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian futurist poet.   Mayakovsky’s life is celebrated by one of the greatest museums anywhere, the Mayakovsky House<\/a>  in Moscow, which re-creates in visual and spatial terms the constructivism of Mayakovsky’s writing.   The image is from their web-site, and shows a room in the museum.
\nThe middle quartrain formed part of Mayakovsky’s suicide note, with “you” replaced with “life”.<\/p>\n

Past one o’clock.  You must have gone to bed.
\nThe Milky Way streams silver through the night.
\nI’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams
\nI have no cause to wake or trouble you.
\nAnd, as they say, the incident is closed.
\nLove’s boat has smashed against the daily grind.
\nNow you and I are quits. Why bother then
\nto balance mutual sorrows, pains and hurts.
\nBehold what quiet settles on the world.
\nNight wraps the sky in tribute from the stars.
\nIn hours like these, one rises to address
\nThe ages, history, and all creation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reference:<\/em>
\nVladimir Mayakovsky [1960]:  The Bedbug and Selected Poetry<\/em>.  Translation by Max Hayward and George Reavey.  Bloomington, IA, USA:   Indiana University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we leave behind the economic troubles of 2008, I thought it fitting to post this poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian futurist poet.   Mayakovsky’s life is celebrated by one of the greatest museums anywhere, the Mayakovsky House  in Moscow, which re-creates in visual and spatial terms the constructivism of Mayakovsky’s writing.   The image is from their web-site, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2008","m12","d26","h11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10409,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}