{"id":3460,"date":"2020-11-02T09:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:09:36","slug":"saturdays-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/saturdays-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"saturday&#8217;s madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>rested yet<br \/>\nrunning on empty<br \/>\nwaiting for the moon<br \/>\nand feeling<br \/>\nsecond-hand<br \/>\nhaunted, costumed,<br \/>\nand far from you<br \/>\ndeadbolt demons pray<br \/>\nfor the end of this<br \/>\nuntouchable day<br \/>\nas cold souls of chemical chance<br \/>\ncast a capricious cadence<br \/>\ninvoking an apparition of<br \/>\ncontorted creativity<\/p>\n<p>wet sidewalks and empty brain matter<br \/>\ntraditions are replaced<br \/>\nwith tired animal routines<br \/>\nevery daydream<br \/>\nplants a secret<br \/>\nand every secret<br \/>\nmurders another memory<\/p>\n<p>reanimated with random art<br \/>\nand drinking wishes like wine<br \/>\nwe are possessed by a specter<br \/>\nof wandering suspicions<br \/>\nseeded with seasonal superstition<br \/>\nas we collect sedated compositions<br \/>\nand reset these tired prohibitions<\/p>\n<p>conversing with shadows<br \/>\nwe shoot blurry negotiations<br \/>\ntoward an indifferent sun,<br \/>\nundressing innocent eyes<br \/>\nin an abstract intermission<br \/>\nis it coincidence or paradise<br \/>\nas we protest this outdated game<br \/>\npassive, side by side<br \/>\nyou, and i<br \/>\non the edge of society&#8217;s dusk<br \/>\nawaiting the next return<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/487-saturdays-madness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3463\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/487-saturdays-madness-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"487-saturdays-madness\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/487-saturdays-madness-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/487-saturdays-madness-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/487-saturdays-madness.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}