{"id":323,"date":"2014-12-03T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:55:08","slug":"aint-that-a-kick-in-the-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/aint-that-a-kick-in-the-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"ain&#8217;t that a kick in the ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2 am when the furnace kicks on<br \/>\nthe fire (passion) burns dim, and<br \/>\nyou know it&#8217;s cold&#8230;lonely<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s rum, and cats<br \/>\nand an old dog<br \/>\nto keep you warm<br \/>\nbut not much else<br \/>\nas the ads on the radio<br \/>\nspread fear and the promise of redemption<br \/>\nin this moment<br \/>\nyou speak one truth, publicly<br \/>\nand write another, privately<br \/>\na mind divided, not yet unlocked<br \/>\ncan only sustain itself for so long<br \/>\ntill all you have is<br \/>\nthe languor of daydreams<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nhollow narratives, illuminated<br \/>\nby distant candlelight<br \/>\nfamiliar melodies seem so far away<br \/>\nand there is something unfinished,<br \/>\nan unspoken palaver<br \/>\nthat nibbles at your consciousness<br \/>\nwhat to do when<br \/>\nthose thoughts keep seeping in<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s two of us inside this head<br \/>\nya know,<br \/>\nthe visionary and the destroyer<br \/>\nhope held in sagacious sanctuaries<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nit may be too late to quit<br \/>\nand eventually,<br \/>\ntime makes fools of us all<\/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-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}