{"id":315,"date":"2014-11-19T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2014-11-19T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:40:03","slug":"faceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/19\/faceless\/","title":{"rendered":"faceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>it starts off with a joke<br \/>\nand a sip, or two<br \/>\nwalking, talking, and stalking boredom<br \/>\nfrom one scene to the next<br \/>\nvoices, sounds, and hot flashes<br \/>\nescape<br \/>\nall i want is some metal mercy<br \/>\nthe beer takes forever to drain<br \/>\nas everything dances,<br \/>\nout of phase&#8230;with one eye closed<br \/>\nmovement, a reprieve, then&#8230;<br \/>\nquiet, almost thawed on a starry night<br \/>\nwith traffic lights gleaned<br \/>\nin the eyes of children<br \/>\ndriving or walking the streets<br \/>\nendlessly seeking something<br \/>\nas the moon sends her glow<br \/>\npale and whole<br \/>\ni remember the park bench, lamp posts<br \/>\nand how cold it was<br \/>\nthe snow was absent<br \/>\nbut the air chilled me just the same<br \/>\nthank god for my cigarette<br \/>\ncontrary to popular belief<br \/>\nalcohol does not keep you warm<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s graffiti in obscure places<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a language secret and universal<br \/>\nthat we all recognize but fail to understand<br \/>\nin time cars pass by,<br \/>\nindifferent, slowly in sync and<br \/>\nset to their own missions<br \/>\nI&#8217;m invisible or so it seems<br \/>\nto the strangers that hug in jubilation<br \/>\nsearching for their cars<br \/>\nneutral is the gear<br \/>\nheld in waiting<br \/>\nfor good people who,<br \/>\nindecisive, lollygag till fate<br \/>\nstrikes them unevenly<\/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-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}