{"id":4238,"date":"2022-07-15T22:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T02:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2022-07-15T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T03:47:10","slug":"laughing-in-the-face-of-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/15\/laughing-in-the-face-of-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"laughing in the face of absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nintoxicated adventures
\nplaying an old game
\nthat was never meant to be won
\ni’m waiting for an explanation
\nwaiting for the rapture
\ndrinking to live
\nand living to die
\nit’s all a simple mess
\nas i struggle to embrace
\nand deconstruct
\nthis fucked up simulation<\/p>\n

so many strangers, mingling
\nwith no chance for redemption
\nas this blood flows slower
\nwith brown, spent beer
\nremembering dreams
\nthat haven’t yet manifested<\/p>\n

summer can’t wait
\nfor midnight maidens
\ndraped in specious garments
\nmeant to tempt and bend shallow men
\ntowards an untimely grave
\n(ohh how i love them)
\ngimme danger<\/p>\n

they call me crazy
\ni call them npcs’
\nand i weep stale tears for them
\nremembering memories
\nthey couldn’t possibly comprehend
\nit’s a natural insanity
\nwandering from one wounded experience
\nto the next
\ncarelessly collecting souls
\nand trapped in this
\nglorious and vacated occupation
\nslowly but surely
\ni mend poor bodies
\nwith rich minds
\npretending that
\nour hollow spirits have meaning<\/p>\n

truth recedes daily
\nbut this hacked philosophy
\nwaits quietly in the streets
\nstriving to find meaning
\nbeneath the sheets
\nof secular indifference<\/p>\n

hug the earth
\nwith a gesture
\nsimple and incomplete
\nas i capture the light
\nand manipulate these elusive
\npendulum frequencies
\nstretching slowly towards oblivion<\/p>\n

and ohh how we laugh
\nat the absurdity of this
\nsilky smooth rendition
\nand preconceived divinity
\nquietly we plant seeds
\nin the soil of ignorance
\nand break free
\nfrom these sedentary scriptures<\/p>\n

13 cuts and a scarecrow sunset
\nsearching for
\npassion and meaning
\nas hollow bodies
\nseek to fill
\ndisparate souls
\nand dying gods embrace tired mortals
\nitching and scratching
\ntowards something almost real
\nthe sun is a beautiful illusion
\nand the moon is always lying in wait
\nas cycles shift and shape
\nmorphing hollow flesh
\ntowards luxurious rain<\/p>\n

living life
\nto our fullest extent
\nas we race inflation
\nand laugh in the face of oppression
\ni smile and drop another hit of acid
\nchanneling elusive moments
\nof delicious desire<\/p>\n

zero damage to the brain
\nlonely i sit on a throne of
\nempty passion
\nas a righteous currents
\nof the artist’s deception
\nconsumes me<\/p>\n

the clock is ticking
\nbut i can’t be bothered to care
\nand someday
\nall of this will mean something<\/p>\n

\"573-laughing-in-the-face-of-absurdity\"<\/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-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","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=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}