{"id":82,"date":"2008-06-19T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:35:03","slug":"mama-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"mama grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Coffee slugged late at night<br \/>\nice cold, instant type, now almost<br \/>\nundissolved but we really don&#8217;t have<br \/>\nenough time to care about the taste<br \/>\nand only want something wet with<br \/>\ncaffeine since we avoid tumbling<br \/>\nour bedsheets with the weight of today<\/p>\n<p>Since you know me and I know you<br \/>\nare both stuck with brains that<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t go off and actually can&#8217;t<br \/>\nsince we are the engineer and the<br \/>\noilwoman, the coal kid and conductor<br \/>\nfor this maddening set of gears<br \/>\ncalled single motherhood<\/p>\n<p>We stand with one arm folded<br \/>\nthe other out like a crossing guard<br \/>\nin a bad mood on a wet day<br \/>\nour eyes grow grey as bullet steel<br \/>\nwith rage as we are twice reprimanded for<br \/>\nnot fitting on doe eyes to snare some Mr Kent<br \/>\nto descend and protect our curls from wear<\/p>\n<p>We haul our own garbage into the sani truck,<br \/>\nhaggle prices, cook dinner, wipe little tears<br \/>\nthen scare the washer into starting again<br \/>\nbecause it is in its best interest not to<br \/>\nseize again until at least next Wednesday<br \/>\nthen tell polite lies on behalf of empty<br \/>\nflower boxes giving dirt to nosy neighbors<\/p>\n<p>There in the latest part of night<br \/>\nwhile the ringed white cups watch<br \/>\nour finished conversations<br \/>\nwe are proud of our hands<br \/>\ndefining us into worn and common<br \/>\ngirls with rough graces pulling<br \/>\n<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/>\n<!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee slugged late at night ice cold, instant type, now almost undissolved but we really don&#8217;t have enough time to care about the taste and only want something wet with caffeine since we avoid tumbling our bedsheets with the weight of today Since you know me and I know you are both stuck with brains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}