{"id":431,"date":"2015-07-20T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:32:24","slug":"scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/20\/scene\/","title":{"rendered":"scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>click, click, click<br \/>\nflick, the zippo lighter<br \/>\nwait, what are we doing in this strange room<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a maze, a mistake<br \/>\nthe doors are too small and at odd angles<br \/>\nwe shouldn&#8217;t be here, it&#8217;s not time<br \/>\nthis, is a place for the poor<br \/>\nlost souls, wretched in the realization<br \/>\nthat this ramshackle is now home<br \/>\nsplit, was it a dream or a hallucination?<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s like the movie &#8220;a beautiful mind&#8221;<br \/>\nwalls covered with slips of paper and<br \/>\ninvisible strings connecting vague ideas<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s how my mind works<br \/>\ntoo many disjointed thoughts to document properly<br \/>\nand nothing seems to satisfy for long<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all repetition and reparation<br \/>\nredeeming qualities lost in<br \/>\na blur of laziness and wishful thinking<br \/>\nat times i&#8217;m haunted by ghosts<br \/>\nof the great underachievers<br \/>\ncold, hard men, a warning<br \/>\nand the past has a way of<br \/>\nfollowing me from a distance<br \/>\nthere are eyes, spies everywhere<br \/>\nchrome killers constantly<br \/>\ncultivating calculated calumny and<br \/>\nthe creeping gloom is playing in the background<br \/>\nmixed with bird songs and traffic and<br \/>\nfalling against the backdrop of a setting sun<\/p>\n<p>friday, at week\u2019s end<br \/>\ndusk, quiet and questioning<br \/>\nset to the tone of bukowski and molina<br \/>\nsitting with a half empty beer<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no style and<br \/>\nthe night just isn&#8217;t safe anymore<br \/>\nlooking away i see tired eyes and dry skin<br \/>\nhungry and endlessly waiting for<br \/>\nthe right girl, the right time, the right place<br \/>\nto complete the task at hand<br \/>\nit&#8217;s too early to sleep<br \/>\nand too late to retreat<br \/>\nsometimes a man just has nothing to say<\/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-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}