{"id":1862,"date":"2018-08-11T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2018-08-11T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T11:26:16","slug":"riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/11\/riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"riding with the agents of oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>decile distance<br \/>\ndropping a dramatic declaration<br \/>\nand dancing with defaced dedication<br \/>\nas<br \/>\neyelids turn to stone<br \/>\nand chrome couples ride shotgun<br \/>\ndown a melting graffiti road<\/p>\n<p>reanimated with idle conversation<br \/>\nthey are recreated and revealed<br \/>\nunder a burning ghetto sun<br \/>\ndust in the passing lane<br \/>\nand stopped<br \/>\njust short of midnight love<\/p>\n<p>haunted and hunted<br \/>\nby memories of<br \/>\nsingular symmetry<br \/>\ngathering in a makeshift forum<br \/>\nfor a confused and lonely chorus<br \/>\nwe are<br \/>\nclocked and convicted<br \/>\nautonomously measured<br \/>\nin a sub cellular climate<br \/>\nand then silently evicted<\/p>\n<p>dictionaries are wiped clean<br \/>\none, three, five<br \/>\nunfamiliar routine<br \/>\ncut to the post credit scene<\/p>\n<p>breakfast with the morning she devil<br \/>\nas the the father crow<br \/>\ncalls upon a decadent hour<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nthe council of casual cats<br \/>\nsit idle<br \/>\nlike celestial bodies<br \/>\nobserving the progress of man<\/p>\n<p>the gods have granted us<br \/>\none last chance<br \/>\nto resist the conformity<br \/>\nof consumable coffins<br \/>\nlying in wait<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t waste it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1864\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/281-riding-with-the-agents-of-oblivion.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-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}