{"id":393,"date":"2021-04-14T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-2\/?page_id=393"},"modified":"2021-04-28T19:33:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:33:15","slug":"i-was-lying-in-a-burned-out-basement-with-the-full-moon-in-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-2\/i-was-lying-in-a-burned-out-basement-with-the-full-moon-in-my-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dan Raphael<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was lying in a burned out basement<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with the full moon in my eyes\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Neil Young, After the Gold Rush<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">another moon up<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">eaten through the clouds<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like a Jupiter of milk<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a moon too large to be that far from the horizon<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">worldwide auditions to be the official moon of the 20\u2019s<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a moon that will never be full<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">always hungry, not used to these shoes,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">how just enough of the sidewalk holds a grudge<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">holding its breath like a balloon i didn\u2019t expect to pop<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">inside my refrigerator or a vein in my leg&#8211;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">plumbing \u2003 wiring \u2003 circulation \u2003 trade<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">systems matching salts<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color: #ffffff\">\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">woe betide any ambivalence, it\u2019s turn or stop,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">been down this road more times than the road\u2019s been me<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">bits of meat \u2003 wobbling plates \u2003 compost in reverse<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a planet of gas with rock solid atmosphere<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">once we have enough people in orbit<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">where will the satellites go<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">once so many have turned their backs on the earth<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">maybe Australia will be ripped into space like the first moon was<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i call, a moon answers, nothing changes<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i slowly pull my hands apart and reveal<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a scroll i pretend to translate<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a spit so fine, ink so ready to run<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">since the clouds own almost all the moons<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i don\u2019t have enough light to qualify as bait,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my reflection melting into static, into amoeba clouds<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that may be picking up mountains and positioning them like<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">multi-armed speed-chess, as we do all the simultaneous moves<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">needed to jump start a city with no more skeleton than a bee<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">venus reflected in the street, constellations<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the freshly mown field, water too small to be wet,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a planet-load of s\u2019posed-tos, the hill i live on is now a cloud<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my diet\u2019s been deficient in mystery too long<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">once i leave i won\u2019t change til i get back or somewhere,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">no landmarks just construction, nothing in the sky i can trust<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a confusion of rotation and perspective with one eye<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">above the surface &amp; the other below i\u2019m extrapolating<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">survival as another species while the developing<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">lobes of the world seethe and spread around me<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Raphael &nbsp; \u201cI was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes\u201d Neil Young, After the Gold Rush &nbsp; another moon up eaten through the clouds like a Jupiter of milk a moon too large to be that far from the horizon &nbsp; worldwide auditions to be the official&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" 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