{"id":2109,"date":"2019-01-29T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2019-02-01T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:39:18","slug":"fast-food-and-the-art-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/fast-food-and-the-art-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"fast food and the art of  living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>meme extreme<br \/>\nonline, offline, no line<br \/>\nmainly, a man of few words<br \/>\nlurking in the palace of paralysis<\/p>\n<p>old and new<br \/>\ntime and again<br \/>\nreaching out of the blue<\/p>\n<p>waiting<br \/>\nfor answers that never seem to come<br \/>\nwaiting<br \/>\nlike a scab that refuses to heal<br \/>\nwaiting<br \/>\nas strands of vitality linger<br \/>\nlike feral felines on a winter\u2019s shore<br \/>\nwaiting<br \/>\nfor that one brilliant moment of immortality<\/p>\n<p>and i can\u2019t remember which way is up<\/p>\n<p>sister angels weep<br \/>\nfor dire devil bothers<br \/>\nhalf asleep<br \/>\nas<br \/>\nmay day sticks<br \/>\nare left on the sidesteps<br \/>\nlaced with unknown wisdom<br \/>\nand inscribed with<br \/>\nwords that were once great<br \/>\nnow however, stale<br \/>\nand just a little too late<\/p>\n<p>empty minds<br \/>\ntrying to fill<br \/>\nempty souls<br \/>\nblack holes<br \/>\nfor another day<\/p>\n<p>and i can\u2019t remember which way is up<\/p>\n<p>wars and one sided walls<br \/>\nramblings of an idiot king<br \/>\nand pedestrian peasants<br \/>\nscrambling under lyrics of hate<br \/>\nplease, drown them out with love<br \/>\nas<br \/>\nsecrets start to surface<br \/>\ndisturbances<br \/>\nheld in the foreground<br \/>\ni hear the chanting of<br \/>\nevolution<br \/>\non the streets of midnight<\/p>\n<p>melancholy of misfits in heat<br \/>\nis it a feast of saints<br \/>\nor a buffet of sinners?<\/p>\n<p>i want to leave behind<br \/>\nthese noble fools<\/p>\n<p>and i can\u2019t remember which way is up<\/p>\n<p>romance<br \/>\nor religion<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s the difference<br \/>\nbetween an artist<br \/>\nor an unemployed man<\/p>\n<p>too long without an alarm clock<br \/>\nand nothing but static on the radio<\/p>\n<p>and i can\u2019t remember which way is up<\/p>\n<p>spook spell<br \/>\ncasting a salacious saint<br \/>\nspoken with<br \/>\nsacred sarcasm<br \/>\nand serendipity<\/p>\n<p>sex, satisfaction, and sacrilege<br \/>\nmopped over a dirty floor of<br \/>\npassive passions<br \/>\norganized like the living dead<br \/>\ntheir songs, slow, simple,<br \/>\nand stretched across<br \/>\nan empty landscape of stuttered days<\/p>\n<p>and i can\u2019t remember which way is up<\/p>\n<p>staring at white screens<br \/>\nwith no information<br \/>\nno elation<br \/>\njust an overgrown sense of<br \/>\nassimilation<br \/>\na pause, to remind us<br \/>\nof who we used to be<\/p>\n<p>epic poems<br \/>\nlost in lost in a mixture 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