{"id":2293,"date":"2019-06-19T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:09:49","slug":"bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"bits and pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LSD
\nflashback, twenty-five years
\nmystic ignorance
\nflash forward, thirty-five years
\ncollected indifference
\nsocial cues ignored
\nwith subtle signs set to ward
\nthe impending moral horde
\nas communal vibrations
\nspawn careless desecrations<\/p>\n

alcoholic days seem so useless
\nnight after night tearing at
\nunfinished stories
\nwritten on stained windows
\ni\u2019ve lost all my lighters
\nand these dreams are just motions
\nset in a foggy reality<\/p>\n

completely vented before 7am
\ni\u2019m just really not that into time man
\ni need clarity
\nyet all i see
\nare faces in trees
\nleading me to pages that are incomplete<\/p>\n

i read my cards once,
\nthen again
\na warning
\ni’m always attracted
\nto a certain kind of danger
\nflip that coin called kismet
\none side holds hope
\nthe other, despair
\nwhat will it be today?
\nin the distance i hear him whisper
\n“you were warned”
\n“fuck it” i think
\nand with one last laugh
\ni mouth the words “bring it!”
\ni’m becoming harder
\nand waiting for war<\/p>\n

shuffling through the god box
\ni spied arrows, hammers, and other useless trinkets
\nand i remember how we walked along
\nfences that stretched for miles
\ndecorating and obliterating
\nthe boundaries between
\nallegory and corporeality<\/p>\n

one more fire before the midnight dream
\nand as the smoke clears
\ni see visions of THE DRAGON
\nabsently singing to a forgotten princess
\nit’s THE HIGH before THE LOW
\nas my blood flows
\nwith the consciousness
\nof mistress moon<\/p>\n

roaming rough drafts and distant distortions
\nlost and hovering over
\nblack and white keyboards
\ni stop, reanimate, and consummate
\nthat one, lonely idea
\nthere used to be soft poetry in my soul
\nbut it’s slowly dissolving
\ndevolving into hard scripture
\nso
\nerase disgrace
\nand embrace
\nthis accidental typeface!<\/p>\n

art is dead
\nso feed your head
\nanother way
\ndon’t chase that weirdward woman too far
\nand be wary of plastic people
\nthat dump words like spoiled fruit
\nrace the riot and run with no destination
\nwe need new adventures
\ngrand and glorious escapades
\nof random renegades<\/p>\n

this game has no rules
\nunchecked and unhindered
\nthere’s a wild manifestation
\ndying to break free
\ni\u2019m trying to reach the death of failure
\nbut it\u2019s hard to finish
\nlabels libel me and
\nthis anticipation is killing me<\/p>\n

the supermarkets are full
\nand the libraries are empty
\npreoccupied, separate
\nand distilled below the rest
\nthere is no redemption
\nonly beautiful destruction
\nyielding to a laid-back r(E)volution<\/p>\n

i’ve thrown away all my good-guy badges
\nand i just want to be simple again<\/p>\n

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