{"id":1101,"date":"2016-12-25T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2016-12-25T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T13:55:24","slug":"the-picture-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/25\/the-picture-show\/","title":{"rendered":"the picture show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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if my life was a movie
\ni wonder what would it be
\na comedy, a horror show
\ndamn the drama
\nand no action here
\nbetter yet let it be
\na documentary
\nsplit screen
\nand split personalities
\na cautionary tale
\nfollowing the woes of
\nexcess and non-commitment
\nwith frantic camera angles
\nand a rotating cast of characters
\nor perhaps
\nit would be a murder mystery
\none in which the victim is never
\nscene
\nwait, i think that\u2019s it
\ni think this victim is me<\/p>\n

strange thoughts
\nfor a man in bed at 7pm<\/p>\n

because it\u2019s all
\nperception management
\nand altered realities
\nwashed out in
\ncommercial excess
\nand false celebrity idols
\na world of noise, where
\npoliticians and bankers
\nscrape and scramble to
\nconsume and corrupt
\nwe were spoon fed lies as children
\nand life is not what was shown to us
\non saturday morning television<\/p>\n

it\u2019s all cause and effect
\na distorted slideshow
\nviewed from a distance
\nthrough someone else\u2019s eyes<\/p>\n

i wonder what happens
\nwhen
\nthe lines of this
\nyouthful fallacy
\nthis lunacy
\nbegin to fade<\/p>\n

how are we to keep on
\nkeeping on
\nwith mounting bills
\nfewer thrills
\nand stagnant skills
\nas the pages get longer<\/p>\n

should we embrace this
\ntouch of grey
\nwith shadows of decay
\nas the skin cracks
\nand the hairs begin to recede
\nor should we run
\nscream<\/p>\n

all this rain
\nreaches to the depths of hell
\nand circles back
\nto wash away our sins<\/p>\n

what if all the men
\nand all the women of the world
\nsuddenly
\ndidn\u2019t care
\nwhat would the children do
\nand what would life become
\nif all meaning was lost<\/p>\n

i\u2019m just stuck
\nstruck by
\na fading illumination
\nand in need of a
\nbrief intervention
\nor submissive intermission<\/p>\n

too serious
\nstartled and motivated
\nscattered
\nthese adjectives
\nelude me
\nand i\u2019ve sat at this desk for over an hour
\nwith nothing to show
\nthough
\ni remember something about
\nbalance
\nand how good can never truly win<\/p>\n

and there is
\nstrength
\nto be found in this loneliness
\na kind of obscure determination
\none which drives us forward
\nwith an unending repentance<\/p>\n

and then
\nwhat would happen
\nif suddenly
\nthere was a spark
\nwhat if a smile came along
\none which could change the world
\nwhat would we do then<\/p>\n

\"168-the-picture-show\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}