{"id":2808,"date":"2019-05-18T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:04:44","slug":"7-am-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/18\/7-am-ish\/","title":{"rendered":"7 am&#8230;ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->this morning is warmer and louder<br \/>\ntoday is my long day<br \/>\nlong at work, long love<br \/>\nwaiting for the release of night<br \/>\nand i know that it doesn&#8217;t get much better than all this<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a play, the same show over and over<br \/>\npoorly acted out on a translucent stage<br \/>\nthe saints of circumstance have abandoned me<br \/>\none of the most profound lines i&#8217;ve ever heard is when<br \/>\nJack Nicholson said &#8220;what if this is as good as it gets?<br \/>\ndo you know what hell truly is?<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a cell comprised of boredom and stagnation<br \/>\nit has windows through which you can see the light of creativity, but the doors are all barred\u00a0 and locked<br \/>\nand somehow you swallowed the key<br \/>\nso there you sit<br \/>\nwaiting, penning nonsense<br \/>\nand listening to morning birds sing<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve written in this notebook almost every day this week<br \/>\ndifferent thoughts, nothing has changed<br \/>\ni think i&#8217;m waiting for divine creation<br \/>\nwaiting for someone to save me<br \/>\ni&#8217;m waiting for the past and the present<br \/>\nto meld into some exciting and beautiful future<br \/>\nall around the globe small hands hold torches and cell phones<br \/>\nall of our heroes are either dead or in jail<br \/>\nthe beast has penetrated every home<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a sad state of affairs when<br \/>\nmy mid-afternoon lunch break is interrupted<br \/>\nby the fact that i have run out of beer<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a black kitty sitting on the table<br \/>\nprose, as slayer plays in the background.<\/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":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entries-written-in-the-wrong-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808","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=2808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2808\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}