{"id":388,"date":"2015-03-13T09:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2015-03-13T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:19:25","slug":"transmissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/13\/transmissions\/","title":{"rendered":"transmissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>click click a switch flipped<br \/>\nfrantically the dj&#8217;s finger slid<br \/>\nover the knob, sliders and faders in<br \/>\ntesty cooperation with a grizzled voice<br \/>\ntoo many screens<br \/>\nwas it music or poetry<br \/>\nhe heard, a secret language<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s a half fictional character<br \/>\nlike you, or me<br \/>\nit&#8217;s always strange at 3am<br \/>\nlike coming down from a three day trip<br \/>\nhow do you kick a bad habit? he asked<br \/>\nthe air is stale in this bunker<br \/>\nI got a full ashtray,<br \/>\ncats and guns everywhere<br \/>\nthe atomic clock ticks<br \/>\ntalking at strangers<br \/>\nshaping questions to goad them<br \/>\ninto archaic reactions<br \/>\nit&#8217;s mostly a one way dialog<br \/>\ni got nothing say<br \/>\nno clever word play<br \/>\ntoday just a couple of thoughts,<br \/>\nstories, and quotes<br \/>\nfiller till something new arrives<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a hum that stretches for miles<br \/>\nwhispering<br \/>\nall hail the glorious king of no words<br \/>\nso listen up friends, it&#8217;s the same old tune<br \/>\nremixed, back and forth with a pinch of<br \/>\nsomething new<br \/>\nit wasn&#8217;t cancer that killed Frank Zappa<br \/>\nit was the death of originality, consumer hell<br \/>\nand now they&#8217;ve got a hold of you<br \/>\nthey live was an artistic prophecy, but thankfully<br \/>\nthe poor are creative through necessity<br \/>\nso speak up, because words are magic and<br \/>\nthe only weapons we have left<br \/>\nthese transmissions are your spells<br \/>\na mandela to wrap you in un-reality<br \/>\nand shatter their control<br \/>\nlife is full of mad clowns and<br \/>\npoorly trained monkeys<br \/>\nreject the curse of collectivism and apathy<br \/>\ntruth,lies and questions<br \/>\npeace, conflict, and balance<br \/>\nremember 3 is the magic number<br \/>\nthe trinity<br \/>\nproblem reaction solution<\/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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}