{"id":3665,"date":"2021-03-18T22:08:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2021-03-18T22:08:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:08:49","slug":"anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/18\/anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"anticipation, negotiation, and a leftover performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>sitting here<br \/>\nat the beginning<br \/>\nof the end of the world<br \/>\nbeer drunk<br \/>\nand quietly in love<br \/>\nwith all the things<br \/>\nthat cannot be<br \/>\nsoft music<br \/>\nresets a restless tone<br \/>\nas i light<br \/>\nthe last american spirit<br \/>\nand let my fingers wander<br \/>\nover this dusty black keyboard<br \/>\nbroadcasting the intensity<br \/>\nof anger and hope<br \/>\nas neglected hammers<br \/>\nsearch for rejected nails<br \/>\nand somewhere<br \/>\nwandering dreams<br \/>\ncry for release<\/p>\n<p>the older i get<br \/>\nthe more i appreciate<br \/>\nthe quiet times<br \/>\nanxiously mindful<br \/>\nand careful not to drift<br \/>\ninto that soft depression<br \/>\nthat lures you<br \/>\nlike a fish to a worm<br \/>\ncats and capricious cadences<br \/>\nare my only guide<br \/>\nas i slide into<br \/>\nan uncertain mood<br \/>\nhollow, and ready for<br \/>\na storm of consequence<br \/>\nand craftsmanship<\/p>\n<p>i want to be someone else<br \/>\nif only for a spell<br \/>\ni want to sell<br \/>\ndynamic rhythms<br \/>\nto the misled masses<br \/>\nshort and driven by a dull intensity<br \/>\nas i manipulate dials<br \/>\nof background communication<br \/>\nwaiting for patterns<br \/>\nand paper hearts<br \/>\nto shuffle and undress<br \/>\nour misdirections<br \/>\nand lonely indiscretions<\/p>\n<p>incomplete and infinite<br \/>\nwe circle the sun<br \/>\nfor a powerful kill<br \/>\nand remember to take a chance<br \/>\non that one moment<br \/>\nof disordered perfection<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3671\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/519-anticipation-negotiation-and-a-leftover-performance.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-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}