{"id":4282,"date":"2022-08-05T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2022-08-05T23:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T03:35:52","slug":"cutthroats-and-saviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/cutthroats-and-saviors\/","title":{"rendered":"cutthroats and saviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>axes and aces<br \/>\ndirty knives<br \/>\nand wet bed sheets<br \/>\nsometimes it&#8217;s hard to distinguish between<br \/>\nthe darkness and the light<br \/>\ni sing beer trances<br \/>\nand light fires of<br \/>\nskeptical symmetry<br \/>\nand naked passion<br \/>\nas unholy poetry<br \/>\ncharts an uncertain course<\/p>\n<p>this reality isn&#8217;t real<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a hollow fantasy<br \/>\nin which we navigate<br \/>\naimlessly and curious<br \/>\nwaiting for forgiveness and redemption<br \/>\nseeking the christ conciseness<br \/>\nwe accept these sideways facts<br \/>\nand move towards<br \/>\ngreater goals<br \/>\nand even greater gods<br \/>\nforget, and forgive<br \/>\nthis doomsday clock<br \/>\ndrink beer and kiss<br \/>\nthat special someone<br \/>\nunder an unforgiving sun<\/p>\n<p>this life is short<br \/>\nbut our journey is long<br \/>\nas the cat purrs<br \/>\nand the fingers crawl<br \/>\nthere is no eternal recourse<br \/>\nto the lords<br \/>\nof fatal prophecy<\/p>\n<p>but, there is<br \/>\none special moment<br \/>\nyou and me<br \/>\nwriting and reading<br \/>\nthese sacred and obscure lines<br \/>\nseeking a delicate balance<br \/>\nbetween obsession and heavy indifference<br \/>\nspring, summer, fall,<br \/>\nand my empty friend called winter<br \/>\nnatural death and slow rebirth<\/p>\n<p>ugly and whole<br \/>\nwe seek to solve this<br \/>\nspiritual dilemma<br \/>\nas chaos reaches for<br \/>\nobscene recognition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"576-dormant-realities\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/576-dormant-realities-200x138.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}