{"id":4130,"date":"2022-03-24T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2022-03-24T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:17:29","slug":"travesty-transition-and-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/travesty-transition-and-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"travesty transition and transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>background narration<br \/>\nblue animation of the soul<br \/>\ni woke up to the dull reality<br \/>\nof washing machine dreams<br \/>\na cycle set to repeat<\/p>\n<p>what are these lost signals<br \/>\nset in sand<br \/>\nand why are we seated in this<br \/>\nabsurd theater<br \/>\nlistening for mute tones<br \/>\nthat always seem to fall<br \/>\non deaf ears<br \/>\ndo they reveal our primal fears<br \/>\nor crystalize<br \/>\na lonely lion&#8217;s tears<\/p>\n<p>short of breath<br \/>\nand long on life<br \/>\npatiently twisting the knife<br \/>\nwe offer desire<br \/>\nto television gods<br \/>\nof this deluxe and distracted culture<\/p>\n<p>docile and dogmatic<br \/>\nsociety weeps<br \/>\nfor all the wrong reasons<br \/>\nand recovery is a dream<br \/>\nspread by salesmen<br \/>\nof dismal routine<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m seeking a permanent smile<br \/>\nformed from an abstract style<br \/>\nthere is no longer a trusted source<br \/>\nas madmen seek to enforce<br \/>\na rapid and virtual discourse<\/p>\n<p>this homeless passion<br \/>\nprofound yet pointless<br \/>\ncomposes broken solutions<br \/>\nbut i&#8217;m trying to remember<br \/>\nthe quite language<br \/>\nof a social mushroom<\/p>\n<p>i want to strum<br \/>\nthis sacred guitar heart<br \/>\nand browse humanity<br \/>\nwith leisurely optimism<br \/>\nas history exhausts<br \/>\nthese game-show scripts<\/p>\n<p>sometimes\u00a0 it seems<br \/>\nthe light is waning<br \/>\nbut then i realize<br \/>\nthat sometimes<br \/>\nmiraculous stars<br \/>\nshine brightest<br \/>\nin the dark<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/562-travesty-transition-and-transformation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4134\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/562-travesty-transition-and-transformation-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"562-travesty-transition-and-transformation\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/562-travesty-transition-and-transformation-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/562-travesty-transition-and-transformation-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/562-travesty-transition-and-transformation.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-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}