{"id":396,"date":"2015-03-31T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2015-03-31T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:49:25","slug":"about-nothing-two-parts-joined-at-the-lip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/31\/about-nothing-two-parts-joined-at-the-lip\/","title":{"rendered":"about nothing: two parts joined at the lip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\nat night<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s a hustler<br \/>\non every street corner<br \/>\nit&#8217;s kinda creepy how<br \/>\nthey always know<br \/>\nthe women that is<br \/>\ntoo late now<br \/>\nthe trap is a trip<br \/>\nset and sprung<br \/>\ndancing yet again<br \/>\nwith mistakes like ghosts<br \/>\nat night i had visions of them<br \/>\nhaunting refusing<br \/>\nto let me sleep<br \/>\nlater dreams arrived<br \/>\ncorrupt cops psychiatrists<br \/>\ndrugs and institutions<br \/>\nsome cataclysm that backed up<br \/>\ntraffic and cut phone lines<br \/>\nno communication<br \/>\nkilled the big cities<\/p>\n<p>II<br \/>\nfresh from sleep<\/p>\n<p>sunrise with a cat meowing<br \/>\nit was just a dream after all<br \/>\nsitting at a littered desk<br \/>\ni forgot my coffee<br \/>\nand reached for an empty beer<br \/>\nhabit<br \/>\nall i need is a judo chop<br \/>\nand a prayer<br \/>\nstill fresh from sleeping<br \/>\nthinking writing<br \/>\nmaybe all these<br \/>\ncellphones computers<br \/>\nelectromagnetic waves<br \/>\nare putting holes in my brain<br \/>\nbut after a night of bordom<br \/>\nit feels good to<br \/>\nwrite about nothing again<br \/>\nit&#8217;s still not complete though<br \/>\ni always thought that<br \/>\nlike Bukowski i&#8217;d<br \/>\ntry my hand at it<br \/>\nthen retire for 20 years<br \/>\nonly to be reborn<br \/>\nsomehow it never works out<br \/>\nthe way you plan<\/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-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}