{"id":3111,"date":"2020-05-05T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2020-05-05T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T11:39:23","slug":"the-content-of-cold-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/the-content-of-cold-language\/","title":{"rendered":"the content of cold language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>birds on a wire,<br \/>\nkryptonite jeans,<br \/>\nall the pharaohs are dead<br \/>\nsolid on butts and black coffee<br \/>\ni push fat words<br \/>\nthrough thin membranes<\/p>\n<p>what happens when style is denied?<br \/>\ndoes insanity capture the ego?<br \/>\nand if so, how can i master<br \/>\nthis detached destiny<\/p>\n<p>perhaps there is no solution<br \/>\nas the crickets continue to sing<br \/>\nand we strive<br \/>\ntowards lengths of no consequence<\/p>\n<p>tired and reaching for<br \/>\none last moment of anticipation<br \/>\nthe past laughs at the present<br \/>\nand the future cries for the past<br \/>\nas mad clerics and capricious maidens<br \/>\ndance with the moral enchantment<br \/>\nof an unbalanced symmetry<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t want to wander<br \/>\ntoo far from love<br \/>\nbecause empty nights<br \/>\nare kept company<br \/>\nwith hollow cans<br \/>\nand cracked hands<br \/>\ngrip cigarettes of self destruction<\/p>\n<p>irregular stimulation,<br \/>\nas narrow years<br \/>\nare driven delicately<br \/>\ntowards a soft reset<br \/>\ni&#8217;m flirting with the end<br \/>\nin a pixelated landscape<br \/>\nof unfamiliar entries<\/p>\n<p>kicking rays of absent sunshine<br \/>\nover another dim horizon<br \/>\nshould we endure this<br \/>\nabstract entertainment?<br \/>\nor should we create<br \/>\na contemporary cadence<br \/>\nof calculated awakenings?<\/p>\n<p>perhaps i will<br \/>\ncontinue to craft words of harmony,<br \/>\nretire to the wind,<br \/>\nand forget this endless game<br \/>\nof random repetition<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/429-the-content-of-cold-language.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3114\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/429-the-content-of-cold-language-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"429-the-content-of-cold-language\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/429-the-content-of-cold-language-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/429-the-content-of-cold-language-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/429-the-content-of-cold-language.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-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}