{"id":4095,"date":"2015-04-20T22:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2015-04-20T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:56:48","slug":"mascot-a-poem-by-mitchell-krockmalnik-grabois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/mascot-a-poem-by-mitchell-krockmalnik-grabois\/","title":{"rendered":"Mascot. A Poem by Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nThe cheerleaders
\nraise a baby elephant over their heads
\nThey are deceptively strong
\nfrom years of gymnastics, weightlifting
\nand cheering
\n 
\nTheir cheering is so powerful
\nthe other teams default in fear
\nThe cheerleaders\u2019 teams are the champions
\nwithout ever dribbling a ball
\nor giving or receiving a concussion on the gridiron
\n 
\nIf opponents dare show up
\nthey throw the baby elephant at them
\nmow them down like
\nbowling pins
\n 
\nThe elephant hates this
\nhates his life
\nbut he tolerates it
\n 
\nHe knows it\u2019s better than \u2018growing up
\nto be killed for ivory
\n 
\n <\/strong>
\n\"Mitchell<\/a>
\n 
\n 
\nMitchell Krockmalnik Grabois\u2019 poems and fictions have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad. He is a regular contributor to The Prague Revue<\/em>, and has been thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His novel, Two-Headed Dog<\/em>, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for 99 cents from Kindle<\/a> and Nook<\/a> or as a Print Edition <\/a>
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\n 
\n 
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\nPoetryLifeTimes<\/a>
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  The cheerleaders raise a baby elephant over their heads They are deceptively strong from years of gymnastics, weightlifting and cheering   Their cheering is so powerful the other teams default in fear The cheerleaders\u2019 teams are the champions without ever dribbling a ball or giving or receiving a concussion on the gridiron   If … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}