{"id":2999,"date":"2020-02-18T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:16:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:16:39","slug":"the-human-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/the-human-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"the human practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>steal another ugly day<br \/>\nas the cars pass through<br \/>\nempty thoughts of winter<br \/>\nand my dog barks<br \/>\nin hollow defiance<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sitting here, at this righteous machine<br \/>\nsmoking rolled cigarettes<br \/>\nand drinking black coffee<br \/>\nwaiting for the inevitable<br \/>\nwith solid indifference<br \/>\nwaiting, and trying to capture<br \/>\nsome measure of significance<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s no good, this morning meditation<br \/>\nstabbing at the soul of dying words<br \/>\ni want to wage war<br \/>\non the enemies of art<br \/>\ni want to shatter the chains<br \/>\nof naked slavery<br \/>\nand sharpen this silver tongue<br \/>\non stone bodies waiting to be free<\/p>\n<p>unstable<br \/>\ni read idle expressions<br \/>\nand write drunk dictionaries<br \/>\nlighting lazy fires in the rain<br \/>\nand hoping for a hidden retreat<\/p>\n<p>looking out,<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s moss growing on my window sill,<br \/>\ntiny cultures of green possibility<\/p>\n<p>a thousand symmetrical eyes<br \/>\nplanted in the soil of<br \/>\nsolitary solar systems<br \/>\nevery face is a flower<br \/>\nand every flower<br \/>\neventually blooms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/412-the-human-practice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3002\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/412-the-human-practice-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"412-the-human-practice\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/412-the-human-practice-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/412-the-human-practice-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/412-the-human-practice.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-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}