{"id":223,"date":"2014-07-08T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-07-08T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:03:01","slug":"babylon-in-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/08\/babylon-in-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"babylon in heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>greatness is gone<br \/>\nit&#8217;s been exhausted by truth<br \/>\nand now<br \/>\nhypocrites and whores rule the world<br \/>\nwith lies thick like tar<br \/>\ntheres no love anymore<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nhonor struggles just to tread water<br \/>\nwhile so many of us fade to lust<br \/>\ngood vs evil is just a myth<br \/>\na distraction<br \/>\ncreated by preachers and politicians<br \/>\nthose wretched beasts<br \/>\nthat swim among us<br \/>\nlife is a circus<br \/>\nfull of mad clowns<br \/>\nand poorly trained monkeys<br \/>\nwaiting without end<br \/>\nand<br \/>\ninnocence is a lost cat<br \/>\ntrying to find it&#8217;s home<br \/>\nartists ponders the meaning of life<br \/>\nslowly, with reckless deliberation<br \/>\nwhile carefree drunks and and tired junkies<br \/>\nbreak out into rapid conversation<br \/>\nshattering the night&#8217;s eternal silence<br \/>\nSometimes I wonder if art is dying<br \/>\nor if it&#8217;s just evolving<br \/>\ncommunication has broken down<br \/>\nit&#8217;s been reduced to three letter texts<br \/>\ncan you hear these words?<br \/>\nwould you care?<br \/>\ni want to save the world<br \/>\nfrom beautiful destruction<br \/>\nbut first I have to save myself<br \/>\nfrom the eyes that stare back at me<br \/>\nfrom a dusty mirror<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}