{"id":1754,"date":"2018-06-26T07:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-06-26T07:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:11:25","slug":"exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/26\/exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"exhaustion and the morning machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>distillate<br \/>\nno poems today<br \/>\nnever enough sleep<br \/>\nand no woman in my bed<br \/>\nsettled and scaled down<br \/>\ni\u2019ve got a headache that won\u2019t quit<br \/>\ncold coffee<br \/>\nno inspection on my car, and<br \/>\ntoo many hours to work this week<\/p>\n<p>no wine<br \/>\nno time<br \/>\nleft,<br \/>\nright,<br \/>\nor wrong<br \/>\nwith a slightly different song<br \/>\nsay something profound<br \/>\nsomething like<br \/>\nlife is bound<br \/>\nby the intricate<br \/>\nuncertainties we weave<br \/>\nthere, all better<br \/>\nbut no, not really<br \/>\ni guess this is a poem<br \/>\none of the strangest i\u2019ve written<br \/>\na reflection of the times, i suppose<\/p>\n<p>i wonder if anyone actually reads<br \/>\nthese lunatic rants posed<br \/>\nin the guise of poetry<br \/>\ni\u2019d like to think i have an audience<br \/>\nbut one never knows<br \/>\ni have a new book coming out soon<br \/>\nstill so many poems to choose from<br \/>\nand luckily<br \/>\nthey keep coming<br \/>\nslower now<br \/>\nand not as interesting<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nit\u2019s still there<br \/>\ni saved a little spark<br \/>\njust like bukowski said<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019ve been home sick for three days<br \/>\nlocked within my own drab mind<br \/>\nand now<br \/>\ni have to return to the real world<br \/>\njust as drab, but not as divine<br \/>\nand as always the kitty sits in my lap<br \/>\nas i write this,<br \/>\nsome things never change<br \/>\nand at least we can always count on that<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1755\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/266-exhaustion-and-the-morning-machine.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/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-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","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=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}