{"id":351,"date":"2015-01-14T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T00:33:25","slug":"the-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/14\/the-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"the theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>a gathering of souls<br \/>\ndistortion<br \/>\nin two parts<br \/>\nstoned<br \/>\nor perhaps confounded<br \/>\ni stopped quite suddenly to observe<br \/>\nthe passing of genius into obscurity<br \/>\nthe dawn of a new era<br \/>\nwhere unthinking minds ruled the realm<br \/>\nand patience was rewarded with malice<br \/>\na circle of dazed eyes was<br \/>\nheld in ecstatic rapture and<br \/>\nmy attention was in a critical state<br \/>\nspilt and untempered<br \/>\nthis was no time for second guessing<br \/>\nyet here i was<br \/>\noverwhelmed and considerate<br \/>\npondering\u00a0 possible futures&#8217;<br \/>\nand lamenting a forsaken past<br \/>\nin pitched perfection<br \/>\ni sat and inhaled death&#8217;s breath<br \/>\nand laughing, spit it out<br \/>\ninto the bowls of confident control<br \/>\na familiar curse caressed me then<br \/>\nonce again<br \/>\nhow many truths can a man consume<br \/>\nbefore they take him, and break him<br \/>\ninto a thousand disparate pieces<br \/>\nlost to the whole<br \/>\nmany more i hope, and fear<br \/>\nlater i was struck<br \/>\nwith the realization of<br \/>\nhow quickly the seed grows<br \/>\nmoments missed or unnoticed<br \/>\nseem all to real<br \/>\nwhen driving tired on long roads<br \/>\nbut as i watched locked in this\u00a0 moment<br \/>\nof astonishing clarity<br \/>\ni saw a subtle reflection<br \/>\nof all the tender cares<br \/>\nand lessons hard learned<br \/>\nit was the future I saw<br \/>\nin all it&#8217;s magnificent<br \/>\nand terrifying splendor<br \/>\ni was thoughtful but tired<br \/>\nand sleep is no comfort to the damned<\/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-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}