{"id":2153,"date":"2019-04-17T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:42:24","slug":"when-the-well-runs-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/17\/when-the-well-runs-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"when the well runs dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>tactile tales<br \/>\ntricks of the trade<br \/>\ntrials, trances, and transformation<br \/>\nwe hold distractions<br \/>\nlike dead flowers<br \/>\nand command of the word<br \/>\nis shaky at best<\/p>\n<p>blue bird<br \/>\nblack<br \/>\nand broken by the world<\/p>\n<p>secret spawn<br \/>\ni want to remember the first line<br \/>\nlike it was the last<br \/>\nno more ghosts<br \/>\nno more songs<\/p>\n<p>embrace the background noise<br \/>\nwith cats and cacotopian coffee<br \/>\nwe ride random lines<br \/>\nspent like loose change<br \/>\nas ideas seep then sleep<br \/>\nno art, no poetry<br \/>\njust promiscuous thoughts<br \/>\nbrain fodder<br \/>\non a cold morning dawn<br \/>\nsimple words converted and captured<br \/>\nsettled in paper notes with no meaning<\/p>\n<p>six am, cold car hum<br \/>\ndressed like a lyrical bum<br \/>\nthese early days<br \/>\ncontinually kill the poet mind<\/p>\n<p>ruled by routine<br \/>\nsurvival<br \/>\nunder a guillotine<br \/>\nsome days we simply<br \/>\ndeputize and digitize<br \/>\nabbreviated forms of storytelling<\/p>\n<p>starving notebook themes<br \/>\nquiet as this fine toothed pen nibbles<br \/>\nat starving pages<br \/>\ninvented and cemented<br \/>\nin these spiral hollow dreams<\/p>\n<p>search a sunlight swell<br \/>\nwith sanitation<br \/>\nin the morning spell<br \/>\nshifting gears<br \/>\namidst spectral spheres<br \/>\ntwo lines, then back to work<\/p>\n<p>screen names cascade<br \/>\nlike vanity portrayed<br \/>\nand all at once<br \/>\na bitter silence is betrayed<\/p>\n<p>watered down days<br \/>\nmix with tangled vines<br \/>\ncomposed of<br \/>\ndying rhymes<br \/>\ndriving me to midnight wine<br \/>\ntill i&#8217;m left with nothing<br \/>\nbut personal crimes<\/p>\n<p>fever, favor<br \/>\nfriendships and fatalities<br \/>\nfuel for an uncertain fabrication<br \/>\nin the noonday sun<\/p>\n<p>living fiction<br \/>\nbeneath constant friction<br \/>\nabsent benediction<br \/>\nwith dances and scriptures<br \/>\nthe metal heads are moonlighting<br \/>\nas madcap marionettes<\/p>\n<p>curse the ghost of tuesday<br \/>\nin my mind he whispers a song<br \/>\nthough somehow<br \/>\nthe melody seems a bit wrong<br \/>\ni want to drink<br \/>\nfrom that elevated fountain<br \/>\nand forget the future<\/p>\n<p>behold the fire<br \/>\nand polished humanity<br \/>\nthe word is different now<br \/>\nand we missed the apocalypse<br \/>\nrepent slowly<br \/>\nas the lines between<br \/>\naddiction and desire<br \/>\ncontinue to blur<\/p>\n<p>fate is a forgotten tragedy<br \/>\nand i know now<br \/>\nthat the stars<br \/>\nare just<br \/>\nsouls<br \/>\nthat never made it to heaven<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2160\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"325-when-the-well-runs-dry\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/325-when-the-well-runs-dry-200x138.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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