{"id":355,"date":"2015-01-19T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2015-01-19T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T13:58:27","slug":"an-empty-coffee-can-with-bullet-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/19\/an-empty-coffee-can-with-bullet-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"an empty coffee can with bullet holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>five ghosts one<br \/>\nwander in the desert high<br \/>\non the souls of travelers eating peyote<br \/>\nthat song is always so familiar<br \/>\na future dream perhaps<br \/>\nweaponize your words and head for the hills<br \/>\nwinter is so long I&#8217;ve almost forgotten what<br \/>\nwomen in skimpy clothing look like<br \/>\nthe rail yards are deserted<br \/>\nand there is no focus in the minds<br \/>\nof Americans anymore, just stagnation<br \/>\nhow long till the sewers run<br \/>\nred with blood<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve wasted a weekend<br \/>\nwith dull entertainment<br \/>\nplodding along without sacrifice<br \/>\nfuzzy and uninterrupted<br \/>\nthe kings and queens of bullshit<br \/>\nalways reign over an empty court<br \/>\nsleeping on park benches stoned at 15<br \/>\nwho would have thought conformity could<br \/>\ntake hold like this<br \/>\n&#8220;it&#8217;s the things we love<br \/>\nthat kill us&#8221; he said<br \/>\ncaught again at the junction between<br \/>\nremorse and boredom<br \/>\nyoung men wait for adventure and<br \/>\nold men wait for retirement<br \/>\ni wait for purpose<br \/>\nall grown up with no where to go<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t ride in the backseat anymore<br \/>\nit seems that<br \/>\nbad habits cling to these hands<br \/>\nlike stubborn moss and<br \/>\nthe greatest sin is the one<br \/>\nthey never taught us in church<br \/>\nI know that now&#8230;.<\/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-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}