{"id":339,"date":"2016-09-29T20:08:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T00:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:35:30","slug":"the-watcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/29\/the-watcher\/","title":{"rendered":"the watcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a bit macabre<br \/>\nperched and watching<br \/>\ni have a guardian but he&#8217;s no angel<br \/>\nthese lives we lead<br \/>\ni\u2019ve beaten around this bush for far too long<br \/>\nand i\u2019m writing this at an odd hour<br \/>\nlater than usual, around the time that<br \/>\nan uneasy feeling starts to set in<br \/>\ni know that i\u2019m<br \/>\ntwo days old and one young<br \/>\nsuppressed or out of balance there is something<br \/>\ntrapped, hidden maybe<br \/>\nunsung<br \/>\nand lately these metaphors are<br \/>\nmenacing me<br \/>\nhaunting, taunting me<br \/>\nto create<br \/>\na life unreal(or was it surreal)<br \/>\nsomewhere to hide or<br \/>\nsomething to revere<br \/>\nand i almost remember<br \/>\nsimpler times, longer days<br \/>\nspent in tenuous comfort<br \/>\nbut now it seems that i\u2019m nothing but a<br \/>\nglorified pillow for my cat<br \/>\nas he rests upon my chest<br \/>\npiercing eyes set, cold calculating<br \/>\ncome and gone<br \/>\ni think he remembers<br \/>\nall those faces<br \/>\nmixed and matched<br \/>\nplaces<br \/>\nhow did we get here<br \/>\ntempers tempered<br \/>\nnights spent racing in<br \/>\nand out of a sanctimonious stupor<br \/>\nand running in the wrong direction<br \/>\nalways chasing the wrong ones<br \/>\ni wonder was it bad luck<br \/>\nor just stupidity?<br \/>\nan avatar of the self<br \/>\nhe doesn\u2019t pass judgment<br \/>\nbut knows the answer<br \/>\nand he won\u2019t tell me<br \/>\ndamn that cat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/151-the-watcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-928 size-escutcheon-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/151-the-watcher-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"151-the-watcher\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/151-the-watcher-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/151-the-watcher-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/151-the-watcher.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/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-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}