{"id":1929,"date":"2018-09-13T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2018-09-13T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T11:15:58","slug":"a-world-without-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/13\/a-world-without-end\/","title":{"rendered":"a world without end"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

throttled again
\nwith makeshift makeovers
\nas the pen runs out of ink
\nand the morning brews with miscalculation<\/p>\n

as eyes penetrate
\nand elect the enemy
\nand the mouth spills forth
\nwords that no longer have any meaning<\/p>\n

burned too quick
\nas the brain bows
\nand grants readmission
\nhands and feet creep
\nseductively to another molten submission<\/p>\n

as the stomach churns
\nand a lonely heart burns
\nthe back is broken
\nfrom years of conquests unspoken<\/p>\n

as the girl ignores you
\nand the moment is lost
\ncast out or
\ncast in,
\nforgotten stone
\nlittered with withered bone
\ndrunk and dismembered
\nin a ritual procession
\nof this false profession<\/p>\n

as the fountain runs dry
\nand gas stations no longer serve
\nhomeless homebodies are crippled
\nand left to think, without a drink
\nof what they should preserve<\/p>\n

as familiars patterns begin to fade away
\nand all the tricks of the trade
\nhave transformed to deadly nightshade<\/p>\n

as a faded flag waves tattered and torn
\nand another useless superstar is born<\/p>\n

as the lungs refuse to breath
\nand a warrior\u2019s sword is unsheathed<\/p>\n

as the traffic begins to bleed
\nand reluctant travelers angrily recede
\ngarbage is recycled
\nand delicate flowers no longer spew their seed<\/p>\n

newspapers die in favor of something less tangible
\nas old men give way
\nto younger versions of themselves
\nand the only sound on the pier
\nis that of seagulls in heat<\/p>\n

as all our bridges continues to rust
\nand that obsessive gambler
\ncontinues to bust<\/p>\n

as the notebook is filled
\nand bitter beer is spilled
\nthe mountains move with each song
\nas we consume rolling hits from a golden bong<\/p>\n

god metal and glass satan
\nlaughing toward the same end
\nand sipping blood wine among graffiti ruins<\/p>\n

as bukowski\u2019s ghost
\nis taunting a desperate host
\nand the lords and ladies are robbed of all incentive<\/p>\n

as we drive with no destination
\nsearching for the fix
\nwith broken souls
\nlingering and mixed<\/p>\n

as humanity continues to sail dangerous tides of
\nendless war, pollution, and greed
\nslaves of a poorly chosen elite
\nare buried and left to bleed<\/p>\n

tv trances mixed with lost dances
\nhypnotize and mesmerize the masses
\nas crackpots, buffoons and depots
\ncontinue to call the shots<\/p>\n

as the rent is due
\nso fades summer\u2019s hue
\nthe swarm continues to subdue
\nand the gods come calling for a fate long overdue<\/p>\n

as i write this
\nit\u2019s almost time to go
\nthe world has just gone crazy
\nand soon, i\u2019m sure to follow<\/p>\n

\"294-a-world-without-end\"<\/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-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}