{"id":2532,"date":"2019-08-27T09:50:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:50:32","slug":"this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"this was supposed to be a short poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>organized and ready to go<br \/>\nready to go<br \/>\nnowhere<br \/>\nand waiting to write<br \/>\nwaiting to write<br \/>\nnothing important<br \/>\nyou know all my stories<br \/>\nno more school bus dreams<br \/>\nor songs of birds and bumblebees<br \/>\nfailure to conceive<br \/>\nas another purple morning<br \/>\nstrings me along<br \/>\nand the male persona<br \/>\nis decimated<br \/>\nlike worn slippers<br \/>\nwaiting for christmas<\/p>\n<p>cruel rules<br \/>\ncast out<br \/>\nno leaders<br \/>\nno blues<\/p>\n<p>falling falling falling<br \/>\ninto another empty coffee cup<br \/>\ntoo tired to sit up<br \/>\nthrow up<br \/>\nor give up<br \/>\nplugged in, charged up<br \/>\nand then what?<br \/>\nwe wait<br \/>\nwait for the grand symphony<br \/>\nof human interaction<br \/>\nthrowing souls about<br \/>\nand crying on wasted shoulders<br \/>\nas we preach levels of integration<br \/>\nand curse the code of moderation<br \/>\nis it divination or devastation ?<\/p>\n<p>too much of this<br \/>\nand not enough of that<br \/>\nsometimes it comes so easy<br \/>\nand other times<br \/>\nthere is no line that can save you<br \/>\nuntil finally<br \/>\ndeath seems a suitable alternative<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve traded in my bullets for books<br \/>\ni use dictionaries as ammunition<br \/>\nbecause words wielded well<br \/>\nare more powerful than any gun<br \/>\nthe mind of a misfit<br \/>\nis stolen and burned<br \/>\nthe ashes blown<br \/>\nby calculated winds<br \/>\nare forming something new<br \/>\nand if you look real closely<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll see the ancient mother<br \/>\ncarrying an inverted crucifix<br \/>\nand laughing in the distance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2534\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/360-this-was-supposed-to-be-a-short-poem.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/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-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","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=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}