{"id":485,"date":"2016-09-30T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:33:08","slug":"what-else-did-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/30\/what-else-did-you-say\/","title":{"rendered":"what else did you say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>tired<br \/>\nfriday night flights and<br \/>\nmy attention span is down to<br \/>\na few precious moments<br \/>\nthere i sat, on top of the world<br \/>\nlooking down<br \/>\nas a familiar tune hung loosely in the air<br \/>\nthe sky had claw marks, shred<br \/>\nfrom which the sun shed<br \/>\nit\u2019s final moments<br \/>\nbegging and bleeding<br \/>\nto remain among the land of the living<br \/>\nwith worn boots laced tight<br \/>\nand my jean jacket hanging in a<br \/>\nstylish and subdued fashion<br \/>\nI crept down 7th lane<br \/>\nhalf empty beer in hand<br \/>\na calamitous machine gun man<br \/>\ni had cheated you see<br \/>\nalone with the dead and<br \/>\none too many cigarettes<br \/>\nit was lust and adventure<br \/>\nthat filled my head, then<br \/>\na hint of desperation and<br \/>\ni couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that<br \/>\nsomehow i had been left behind<br \/>\nwanting and waiting<br \/>\nwith a warrant of wasteful watchwords<br \/>\nheld in reserve for the wrong time<br \/>\nthere was something secret,<br \/>\nhalf spoken, elusive<br \/>\nand i knew that by tomorrow<br \/>\nit would be gone<br \/>\nerased, forgotten<br \/>\nor perhaps just white<br \/>\nbecause we are nothing but<br \/>\nraw hearts<br \/>\ntoo real to be committed<br \/>\nand too alone to be real<br \/>\nthere\u2019s always a boogey man<br \/>\njust around the corner<br \/>\nand lifes&#8217; only worth living<br \/>\nin the early morning hours<br \/>\nwhen no one else is watching<br \/>\neveryone has a style<br \/>\nand my style is born of<br \/>\ninspiration and lack of talent<br \/>\nif it\u2019s meant to be, it won\u2019t be<br \/>\nunless you pursue it, entice it<br \/>\nsurrender to the chaos of uncertainty<br \/>\nand shatter the illusion of satisfaction<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150-what-else-did-you-say.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-927 size-escutcheon-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150-what-else-did-you-say-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"150-what-else-did-you-say\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150-what-else-did-you-say-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150-what-else-did-you-say-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150-what-else-did-you-say.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-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}