{"id":303,"date":"2014-10-23T08:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-10-23T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:41:58","slug":"stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/23\/stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>stop for a minute stranger<br \/>\nlook around and tell me<br \/>\nhow you see this world<br \/>\nin markets, bars and<br \/>\non the television<br \/>\nsocially, all contrived and cordial<br \/>\nchatter without feeling<br \/>\nsmiles and fearful eyes<br \/>\nare you wanted, no just needed<br \/>\nat least for a moment<br \/>\nsit down my friend<br \/>\nhave a beer, and maybe<br \/>\none last bonfire<br \/>\ncause in these cold months<br \/>\nthe words begin to escape me<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s elation and desperation<br \/>\non the wandering horizon<br \/>\nso now i\u2019ve become<br \/>\na warrior of inattention<br \/>\nplagued with disjointed sensations<br \/>\nmoments of fitness and transmission<br \/>\nthe time for hibernation is near and<br \/>\nthat feeling is almost gone<br \/>\nthankfully, but not completely<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just different now<br \/>\nthe ghost of loss is just that&#8230;<br \/>\nethereal, and distant<br \/>\nof course there are<br \/>\nmindless days and tv nights<br \/>\nconsumed with boredom and lust<br \/>\nlost books that gain dust<br \/>\nbut writing changes still patterns<br \/>\nspirit of the upper chaos<br \/>\nhelp me find the caretaker of night<br \/>\nor my lack of sleep may<br \/>\ndrive me down a highway<br \/>\nof\u00a0 hardened madness<br \/>\nbut at least I have my cats<br \/>\nthose beautiful anarchic beasts<br \/>\nand in the end what more could I ask<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}