{"id":475,"date":"2016-08-09T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:41:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:41:51","slug":"its-all-these-things-and-none-of-them-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/09\/its-all-these-things-and-none-of-them-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"it\u2019s all these things and none of them at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">don\u2019t try, because<br \/>\nit\u2019s that alliteration thing again,<br \/>\nand it\u2019s stuck inside my head<br \/>\nthat god dammed devil\u2019s den<br \/>\nand i&#8217;m not quite ready to start the day<br \/>\nas the smell of middle age lingers<br \/>\ni have a mind<br \/>\nbut to map this mayhem<br \/>\nis madness, metaphorically speaking<br \/>\ngrabbing guns and driving through<br \/>\ncrazy cat conspiracies<br \/>\nit\u2019s a herd in cadence<br \/>\nleading to a camouflaged cabaret<br \/>\nwith words split in<br \/>\ntwo-thirds<br \/>\nblocked, rocked<br \/>\nand well-stocked<br \/>\nhidden in culture shock<br \/>\nthese words have no meaning<br \/>\nuntil written, or spoken twice<br \/>\nand there are too many<br \/>\nbankrupt beer bottles<br \/>\nburgeoning atop my desk<br \/>\nfor the morning is usually so<br \/>\nfoggy, frustrated<br \/>\nit\u2019s noise unbalanced<br \/>\nwith necks in nooses, living naked<br \/>\nas the labored breathing of<br \/>\nlatter-day legends<br \/>\nechoes down the hall<br \/>\ncreated in and out of time<br \/>\nhead rhyme,\u00a0 trapped<br \/>\nin blissful oblivion<br \/>\nand I have these<br \/>\npessimistic dreams<br \/>\nwrapped in post script<br \/>\nwaiting in paralysis for panegyrics<br \/>\nit\u2019s novel pageantry, an earmarked election<br \/>\nas we sit earnestly awaiting<br \/>\nsudden elation, anticipation abating<br \/>\nswimming with mechanical sharks<br \/>\nthrough the blue screen<br \/>\nthat stretches past eternity<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/145-it\u2019s-all-these-things-and-none-of-them.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-922 size-escutcheon-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/145-it\u2019s-all-these-things-and-none-of-them-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"145-its-all-these-things-and-none-of-them\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/145-it\u2019s-all-these-things-and-none-of-them-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/145-it\u2019s-all-these-things-and-none-of-them-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/145-it\u2019s-all-these-things-and-none-of-them.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/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-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}