{"id":2733,"date":"2019-10-14T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2019-10-14T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:43:09","slug":"riddles-ruling-round-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/14\/riddles-ruling-round-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"riddles ruling round mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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sunsets and sequestered sanity
\nsubstance abuse for fools
\ncaged and aged
\nthe living dead shuffle softly against my window
\nviewing the dawn without eyes
\nconjuring strange lies
\nwith socialism
\nand pirated tongues<\/p>\n

and here i sit
\nhalf dressed
\nand hung up
\non short words
\npartially formed,
\ntrapped in the solace of
\nempty wine glasses
\nand pungent cigarette smoke
\nif only the night could write itself
\ninstead of relying on me
\nto dictate this dull fantasy<\/p>\n

forget the thieves
\nfollow fatal pastimes
\nand painted women
\nas we drink a strange brew
\nin the circle
\nof a killing crew
\nthis life
\nis wrapped in the shroud of
\ncatastrophic newspaper headlines
\nand pointless status updates
\nand madness is so commonplace
\nthat it is no longer obscene<\/p>\n

crosses are crafted
\nwith crossed purpose
\nas i wait for the morning dew
\nand an impossible breath
\nhow do we reconcile
\nall theses vague moments of death?<\/p>\n

gripped by tourniquet dreams
\nand hollow extremes
\nthe pavement is cracked
\nthe bushes are overgrown
\nand there’s a man with
\nhandguns and butterknives
\nknocking at my rusted door<\/p>\n

sex by numbers
\nredlined and redefined
\nsoftly we consume
\nobtuse people
\nand run straight into
\nthe mouths of rabid dogs
\nas the silhouette of a lonely blacksmith
\nforges shallow, shadow dreams
\nmimicking unseen themes
\nand unplanned schemes<\/p>\n

disqualified
\nand crucified
\nas two lives from a single mind
\nsidestep in a simulation of
\nantagonistic fatality
\nwaiting for
\nfame or revelation<\/p>\n

incomplete destiny
\nit’s still early in the game
\ntime enough to compose
\npoems, that hang like
\nserpentine halos
\nas
\nfeline fables
\nfabricate and facilitate
\nthe fornication of
\nfaithless fanaticism<\/p>\n

hot shot, long shot, no shot
\nto rule the day with small footsteps
\nseems an unlikely fortune
\nsolitary weakness
\nbleak and craving more
\nsuch an uneven score
\nas i sleep with
\nbizarre beasts
\nthat crawl on bloody paws<\/p>\n

softly we sit and trip
\nopening up
\nas demons
\ncascade and collide
\nwatching with eyes
\nthat consume dead souls<\/p>\n

father of the broken sun
\ngrant us patience
\nas the children of tomorrow’s sorrow
\nriot on whitewashed streets
\nexposing the malady
\nof this divine apocalypse<\/p>\n

home is an
\nunknown threshold
\nthe path is long, cold
\nand untold
\nso, with savage computation
\nand subtle decay
\nsilently i pray
\nfor a good day
\nwhen the word
\nwill light the way
\n\"383-riddles-ruling-round-mirrors\"<\/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-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}