{"id":371,"date":"2015-02-07T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-02-07T07:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:15:22","slug":"unloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/07\/unloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"unloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p>hey cat, blue black<br \/>\nthe shows all the same<br \/>\nwhere you runnin&#8217; at<br \/>\nkeep walking, and never mind<br \/>\nthose eyes that stare<br \/>\nlike daggers<br \/>\nalways creeping from behind<\/p>\n<p>last night&#8217;s meal lingers<br \/>\nin your mouth and mind<br \/>\nscraps from a disquiet alley<br \/>\nthe spies and sell swords are on the move<br \/>\nand the sun is cold<br \/>\nthe trains still march<br \/>\nnow, to a different tune<br \/>\nold, ordered, and overthrown<\/p>\n<p>the path is well worn<br \/>\nearned and well deserved<br \/>\ntheres fire and cancer in the air<br \/>\nand the crystal rose<br \/>\nthat blooms in summer<br \/>\nshatters in winter<\/p>\n<p>un-showered, unshaven and<br \/>\nunknown, I leapt<br \/>\nfrom one thought<br \/>\nto the next<br \/>\nin a halfhearted attempt<br \/>\nto keep these hills<br \/>\nbehind me and this<br \/>\nanger<br \/>\nat bay<\/p>\n<p>a tender tongue<br \/>\nsizzled on\u00a0 burnt butter<br \/>\nfrustration, step back<br \/>\nlet that mind drift<br \/>\nin quixotic chaos, waiting<br \/>\ncurl up then break out<br \/>\nthree days and then some<br \/>\nback, back, back<\/p>\n<p>II<\/p>\n<p>the night was glowing, holy<br \/>\nfueled by obscenity<br \/>\nwe wandered up and down the river<br \/>\nwith piss stains and crude fire pits<br \/>\nto mark our territory<br \/>\ntime holds little value<br \/>\nto the uninitiated<\/p>\n<p>with pocket knives<br \/>\nzippo lighters<br \/>\nand chess boards<br \/>\nwe conquered the world<br \/>\nflowing in streams of LSD<br \/>\nnever seeing the future<br \/>\nof ragged boys growing<br \/>\ninto haggard men<br \/>\nit was sex and love that did it<br \/>\nhow they hooted and howled<br \/>\nin hollow moments thought to hold glory<\/p>\n<p>where is my warm-blooded warlock<br \/>\nwarding off these dreams<br \/>\nof wayward widow-makers<br \/>\nunlocked and uncocked<br \/>\nthe pistols are kept loaded<br \/>\nthis is what happens when you can&#8217;t write<\/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-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}