{"id":3322,"date":"2020-09-07T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T12:55:23","slug":"the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/the-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"the fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>lay down son<br \/>\nforget the knife<br \/>\nand bodies that fail<br \/>\nforget love that failed<br \/>\nand the tyranny of obligation<\/p>\n<p>the lines are long<br \/>\nand time is short<br \/>\nso remember<br \/>\nbeer, wet and alive<br \/>\nas the sun<br \/>\nkissed erotic treetops<br \/>\nthat reached like defiant spears<br \/>\ntoward heaven<\/p>\n<p>forget the game,<br \/>\nand this garden of weeds<br \/>\nforget the assassin of morning<br \/>\nand dependent eyes<br \/>\nforget that death<br \/>\nis always trailing<br \/>\nslightly behind us<\/p>\n<p>concrete souls wander home<br \/>\nwith sadness out of sync<br \/>\npenetrated by the science of<br \/>\nlinear language<br \/>\nas quiet creatures<br \/>\ncreate a nest of<br \/>\nfaded creativity<\/p>\n<p>so, remember<br \/>\nsoft paws<br \/>\nof the cat<br \/>\nthat never quits<br \/>\nremember shoguns with shotguns<br \/>\nstirring slowly burned stories<br \/>\nunder a starry sky<br \/>\nas we<br \/>\nembrace this<br \/>\nstuttering symmetry<br \/>\nof metaphoric rent<br \/>\nbecause sometimes<br \/>\nthe answer lies in<br \/>\nsubtle destruction<br \/>\nof the self<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/464-the-fix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3328\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/464-the-fix-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"464-the-fix\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/464-the-fix-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/464-the-fix-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/464-the-fix.jpg 558w\" 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-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","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=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}