{"id":1184,"date":"2017-04-27T08:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:40:46","slug":"too-much-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/too-much-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"too much to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>wake up, pet the cat<br \/>\ntake a piss<br \/>\ntake a shit<br \/>\nmake the bed<br \/>\nbrew some coffee<br \/>\nfeed the animals<br \/>\nwalk the dog<\/p>\n<p>check the mail<br \/>\nfilter the spam<br \/>\nread the news<br \/>\nwrite a poem<\/p>\n<p>do the laundry<br \/>\nshave, shower<br \/>\nempty the litter box<br \/>\ntake the trash out<br \/>\nsweep the floor<br \/>\nwash the dishes<br \/>\nclip the dog&#8217;s nails<br \/>\nrake the leaves<br \/>\ncut the fallen tree<\/p>\n<p>gas the car<br \/>\nchange the tires<br \/>\ncash in the bottles<br \/>\nfix the computer<br \/>\nfill out the paperwork<br \/>\npay the fine, pay the bills<br \/>\ncook the food<br \/>\nand gradually forget<br \/>\nwhat it\u2019s like to have fun<\/p>\n<p>when i was a boy<br \/>\nsomehow i thought<br \/>\nthere would be more<br \/>\nbut the lure<br \/>\nof domesticity<br \/>\nhas captured me<\/p>\n<p>alone now<br \/>\ni want to kill the ritual<br \/>\nbecause all the gods have retired<br \/>\nand this is life<br \/>\nin the human world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/181-too-much-to-do.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-escutcheon-logo wp-image-1185\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/181-too-much-to-do-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"181-too-much-to-do\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/181-too-much-to-do-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/181-too-much-to-do-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/181-too-much-to-do.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/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":[31],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-adulthood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","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=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}