{"id":457,"date":"2015-12-07T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2015-12-07T06:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:29:02","slug":"clockwork-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/clockwork-black\/","title":{"rendered":"clockwork black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->6am and feeling time<br \/>\ni dreamt i was on a road trip<br \/>\nwith willie nelson<br \/>\nand a woman i haven&#8217;t met yet<br \/>\nshaving with a throwing knife<br \/>\nthe landscape was flat and unfamiliar<br \/>\ni thought i had something<br \/>\nbut in the end it was<br \/>\ninstigation, investigation, and irritation<br \/>\nalways left wanting more<br \/>\nby an unwelcome alarm clock<br \/>\nfumbling, stumbling, and<br \/>\nlooking out the same stained window<br \/>\nday after day<\/p>\n<p>we are tired of stale news<br \/>\nand empty slogans<br \/>\nwriting nonsense in shorthand<br \/>\n&#8220;shoot straight&#8221; the voice said<br \/>\neveryone wants something<br \/>\nso please<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t drag your feet<br \/>\nacross the beaver&#8217;s moon<br \/>\ndistant stars<br \/>\nred, yellow, boom<br \/>\na strange kind of mood<br \/>\nleave the transmitter on standby<br \/>\nand pray for a signal<br \/>\nbecause you know that<br \/>\nall these muscles have atrophied<br \/>\nfrom talking over and<br \/>\nwalking under rural and rusted joints<br \/>\nlittered with labored breaths<br \/>\nlife isn&#8217;t that short, is it?<\/p>\n<p>we thought peace was the battle cry<br \/>\nbut an ignorant socialist<br \/>\nand a loud mouthed bigot<br \/>\nare winning the nation&#8217;s popularity contest<br \/>\nand the more I watch, the more i see<br \/>\nthe world has become cold<br \/>\n1984 and brave new world in reverse<br \/>\nsurveillance, pharmacology, and security<br \/>\nthe false trinity<br \/>\ntruth is only a matter of perspective<br \/>\nbetween blurred lines of good and evil<br \/>\nthey want to rob us of our individuality<br \/>\nin the name of equality<br \/>\nwhere is howard beale when we need him<\/p>\n<p>and have you noticed<br \/>\nthat even in silence<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s so much noise?<br \/>\nbecause everyone has&#8230;toys<br \/>\ndistraction, disappointment<br \/>\nfree minds disarmed by<br \/>\npropaganda<br \/>\ni really can&#8217;t stand it anymore<br \/>\nmy friend said getting old is a bitch<br \/>\nworse perhaps<br \/>\nthan digging a ditch<br \/>\nall i ever wanted to be<br \/>\nwas a pirate<br \/>\nor hero<\/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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}