{"id":1704,"date":"2023-08-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:03:25","slug":"when-the-world-ends-im-in-space-by-lemmy-yaakova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"when the world ends i&#8217;m in space by Lemmy Ya&#8217;akova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>So I stood looking over the damage. I was late. You were early. \u2014 Station 11&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when the world ends i\u2019m in space&nbsp;<br>&amp; i listen to the remaining people&nbsp;<br>on earth radio that they still<br>live hoping to be heard, saved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; i listen to the remaining people<br>in my memory who took my hand,<br>who now walk me toward a future<br>where they do not need me. strangers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on earth radio that they need<br>a savior but only find themselves.<br>does every living thing try to kill<br>itself? they remember before<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; there is no before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we lived hoping to be heard, saved<br>by something other, too plum<br>tired to speak to our ancestors&nbsp;<br>warning us of our fate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when the world ends i\u2019m in space<br>doomed to blackness, its star<br>siblings &amp; i watch the eternal moon<br>pull waves of blood over what\u2019s left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lemmy Ya&#8217;akova is an advocate for y2k low culture, a film photographer, a popcorn enthusiast and a cat parent to their overgrown son, Moose. Their work can be found in<\/em> SAND Journal<em>,<\/em> HAD (Hobart After Dark)<em>,<\/em> Anti-Heroin Chic Magazine<em>,<\/em> Hooligan Magazine <em>and more. You can keep up with their social medias and read their work here:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/lem_jamin\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/lem_jamin<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>So I stood looking over the damage. I was late. You were early. \u2014 Station 11&nbsp; when the world ends i\u2019m in space&nbsp;&amp; i listen <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=1704\" title=\"when the world ends i&#8217;m in space by Lemmy Ya&#8217;akova\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}