{"id":3638,"date":"2021-03-01T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:38:23","slug":"aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/01\/aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"aggravation and the glorious echo of uncertain euphoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>what happens when<br \/>\nthe lions roam free?<br \/>\nwhat happens when<br \/>\nheavy words<br \/>\nno longer suffice<br \/>\nliving through grass fed days<br \/>\nwith too much love<br \/>\nor not enough<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re just dancing between stale flames<\/p>\n<p>where did all our heroic bandits go?<\/p>\n<p>stalled in this<br \/>\npaperback misadventure<br \/>\ni&#8217;m compelled to turn the page<br \/>\none side reads connection<br \/>\nthe other side, rejection<\/p>\n<p>a man loves his lonely routines<br \/>\nas the mind stabs the heart<br \/>\nslowly bleeding subtle art<br \/>\nas blue pills<br \/>\nreplace<br \/>\nred wine<br \/>\nand the long night predicts<br \/>\nthe outcome of the day<br \/>\nrefusing to confess<br \/>\nfiction becomes reality<br \/>\nas i sit in the corner<br \/>\npetting my cats,<br \/>\nlazily laughing<br \/>\nat all this absurdity<\/p>\n<p>measuring the moment<br \/>\nwith quiet signs<br \/>\nand tired excuses<br \/>\nthe pendulum continues to swing<br \/>\nback and forth<br \/>\nwith little hope for change<br \/>\nlusting and past due<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the same ole game<\/p>\n<p>the eyes<br \/>\nsell lies<br \/>\nto the soul<br \/>\nand on and on<br \/>\nit goes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3640\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/514-aggravation-and-the-glorious-echo-of-uncertain-euphoria.jpg 558w\" 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-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}