{"id":3536,"date":"2021-01-04T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:44:06","slug":"the-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/04\/the-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"the drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>we want<br \/>\neverything<br \/>\nbut so often<br \/>\nwe receive<br \/>\nnothing<br \/>\nwandering this nervous breeding ground<br \/>\nof perpetual disappointment<br \/>\nfantasies seem<br \/>\nimpossible to fulfill<br \/>\nyet still we try<br \/>\nthrough sex and television<br \/>\nthrough drugs and alcohol<br \/>\nthrough willful ignorance<br \/>\nand self imposed isolation<\/p>\n<p>damn this distortion<br \/>\nlove with no definition<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a slow decline<br \/>\neasy living with rough results<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all such a superstitious game<br \/>\nas tired screens and tired eyes<br \/>\nseek complacent connection<br \/>\nwith words that mean so little<br \/>\nand curled hands<br \/>\nthat stretch<br \/>\nlike lazy cats&#8217; paws<br \/>\ntowards the sun<\/p>\n<p>each night<br \/>\ni think it&#8217;ll be<br \/>\ndifferent<br \/>\nand each night i<br \/>\nrepeat<br \/>\nthis rusty routine<br \/>\nwaiting for inspiration<br \/>\neventually surrendering<br \/>\nto a quiet obscurity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/496-the-drunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3538\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/496-the-drunk-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"496-the-drunk\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/496-the-drunk-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/496-the-drunk-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/496-the-drunk.jpg 559w\" 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-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","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=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}