{"id":58632,"date":"2026-03-02T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/?p=58632"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:05:29","slug":"you-will-disembowel-the-bird-viator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/poetry\/you-will-disembowel-the-bird-viator\/","title":{"rendered":"You Will Disembowel the Bird (Viator)"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>\nfunction showWarning_enUS() {\n    var content_warning_list = document.getElementById(\"content-warning-enUS\");\n\n    if (content_warning_list.style.display === \"none\") {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"block\";\n    } else {\n        content_warning_list.style.display = \"none\";\n    }\n}\n<\/script><div lang=\"en-US\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"content-warning-container-ltr\"><p><strong class=\"content-warning-title\">Content warning:<\/strong><br\/><button onclick=\"showWarning_enUS()\">Show warnings<\/button><\/p><div class=\"content-warning\" id=\"content-warning-enUS\" style=\"display: none;\" ><p>This page contains: <\/p><ul><li>Animal cruelty\/death<\/li><li> Body transformation<\/li><\/ul><\/div><br\/><\/div>\n<p>you will disembowel the bird<br \/>\ni must warn you before all else<br \/>\nbefore you poke and prod<br \/>\nat your new brood of yellow chicks<br \/>\nand find threads hanging<\/p>\n<p>if you try to pull the string<br \/>\nyou will disembowel the bird<br \/>\nbecause it is attached<br \/>\nto their tiny internal organs<br \/>\nexactly as yours would be<\/p>\n<p>if you are a sewer<br \/>\nor a general fusser<br \/>\nyou will disembowel the bird<br \/>\ntreating it like a sweater<br \/>\nand pulling without thinking<\/p>\n<p>you have to slow down<br \/>\nwhen you rear young chicks<br \/>\nit\u2019s possible that even by mistake<br \/>\nyou will disembowel the bird<br \/>\nwith an errant movement<\/p>\n<p>but then you should not cry<br \/>\nyou should put the creature down<br \/>\nswift and sure<br \/>\nsooner or later, sadly,<br \/>\nyou will disembowel the bird<\/p>\n<br class=\"clear_both\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i must warn you before all else \/ before you poke and prod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[719],"class_list":["post-58632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-content-warning"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82q22-ffG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58734,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58632\/revisions\/58734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}