{"id":11330,"date":"2026-07-23T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=9936"},"modified":"2026-07-23T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:39:05","slug":"gone-for-drool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/gone-for-drool\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone for Drool"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the eighth day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">someone, not God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">created her drool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, this poem represents an ode to a woman\u2019s drool,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">perhaps the first one in the history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of world literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember the first time I saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She snorted with laughter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">there it appeared, drool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She didn&#8217;t know it was there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">no need to wipe it away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gone right there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d never seen anything so beautifully haphazard: the hilarious saliva of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a name for that. She should invent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now look at us. Here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty-one years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no more time to waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s for procrastinators who have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">never walked a salmon-bearing stream on a freshet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">smelled a juniper gin and tonic gurgling downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She told me about her one-tent stands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">with biologists in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a book in them, perhaps even us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We just have to start living it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eighth day, someone, not God, created her drool. Yes, this poem represents an ode to a woman\u2019s drool, perhaps the first one in the history of world literature. It\u2019s about time. I remember the first time I saw it. She snorted with laughter, there it appeared, drool. She didn&#8217;t know it was there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","category-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}