{"id":2935,"date":"2020-01-08T09:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:25:38","slug":"sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/08\/sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"sad icons and stolen smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->what if this was the last night on earth<br \/>\nwhat if we pretend<br \/>\nthat everything was alright<br \/>\ncould we charm this bluebird fantasy?<\/p>\n<p>remember when beer and cigarettes<br \/>\nwere all we had<br \/>\nremember when tie-dye shapes created<br \/>\na nest of immortality<br \/>\nand the only sounds that mattered<br \/>\nwere birds singing at sunrise<\/p>\n<p>some nights are cold<br \/>\ncolder than february memories<br \/>\nanxious against winter gods<br \/>\ni ration love<br \/>\nlike i ration heat<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nan obsolete heartbeat<br \/>\nswells in this dusty season<br \/>\nindiscreet<\/p>\n<p>this private shrine no longer speaks to me<br \/>\nso i hold low candles high<br \/>\nin hopes that written wounds will dry<\/p>\n<p>i hate repeating words<br \/>\nand some words<br \/>\nkill quicker<br \/>\nthan the best soldiers<br \/>\nmy words are sharp fruit<br \/>\nspilling seeds across the poetry of your skin<\/p>\n<p>404: this one\u2019s an error<br \/>\nmapped to steal a six gun sky<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m tired of broken noise<br \/>\nall this dead language flows from<br \/>\na pendulum rhythm of unequal measure<br \/>\nas empty characters anoint slow minds<br \/>\nlike ancient stars<br \/>\nwaiting patiently for a final release<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2938\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/404-sad-icons-and-stolen-smiles.jpg 559w\" 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-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}