{"id":1788,"date":"2018-07-20T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:34:21","slug":"expectation-of-the-evening-intermission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/expectation-of-the-evening-intermission\/","title":{"rendered":"expectation of the evening intermission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>how many nights<br \/>\nhave these epics gone<br \/>\nunanswered<br \/>\nignored or forgotten<br \/>\nlike dusty half read books<\/p>\n<p>lovers creep passively<br \/>\nlike rats through a digital medium<br \/>\nand these games we play have<br \/>\nloose rules tangled and misunderstood<\/p>\n<p>how many nights have we<br \/>\nsat with cats and wine<br \/>\nand listened<br \/>\nto songs of silence<br \/>\nthat cried out for<br \/>\nthat one missing instrument<\/p>\n<p>drunk soliloquy<br \/>\nin an abandoned theater<br \/>\ni am<br \/>\nneeded<br \/>\nbut never wanted<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nthis passion is a ripe fruit<br \/>\nwaiting to rot from within<\/p>\n<p>how many nights have we<br \/>\nsat on the front steps<br \/>\nlooking at the stars<br \/>\nwaiting and watching<br \/>\nthe dramatic symphony<br \/>\nof cars to passing by<br \/>\nonly to retire to an empty bed<\/p>\n<p>of all the wounds<br \/>\ninflicted by patience<br \/>\nand all the worlds<br \/>\nimagined in moments of boredom<br \/>\nirrelevance is the worst<\/p>\n<p>too many nights of<br \/>\nheartbeats<br \/>\nspent like dying words<br \/>\nimpulsively<br \/>\nreaching out reluctantly<br \/>\nas we grasp the hangman\u2019s noose<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1789\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/272-expectation-of-the-evening-intermission.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-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","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=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}