{"id":680,"date":"2006-11-02T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/4-29-94-mile-marker\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:57:16","slug":"4-29-94-mile-marker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=680","title":{"rendered":"4-29-94 mile marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=680\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Beaumont, TX<br \/>\n4:04am<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as if the stories are true<br \/>\nThat love had taken on a physical pain<br \/>\nIn that I could not tell chronic from virus,<br \/>\nFlesh from emotion<\/p>\n<p>And the Texans can have West Texas<br \/>\nTo do with what they wish<br \/>\nThey can keep their mile markers<br \/>\nAnd the room for minds to wander<br \/>\nDistance passes faster than the time<\/p>\n<p>The fear brings me closer<br \/>\nTruer in a way that I cannot word or diagram<br \/>\nAs if I loved the same way for all times<br \/>\nAnd am waiting to meet someone<br \/>\nWho loves in the same language<br \/>\nMy dialect jumbled, my accent thick as adobe<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Texans can have West Texas<br \/>\nTo keep them big and empty<br \/>\nAs if on the map the scale had changed<br \/>\nFor self esteem and bragging rights<br \/>\nTo fill with longing in the night<\/p>\n<p>These feelings are infectious<br \/>\nThe virus spreads to other lobes<br \/>\nWhen the focus of affection spills<br \/>\nInto compassion&#8217;s waiting hold<br \/>\nI hold more people to my breast<br \/>\nAs if it would make up for the one<\/p>\n<p>Is to let go to hang on<br \/>\nOr is to grasp to lose the point<br \/>\nThe fragile blown egg shell appreciated<br \/>\nBut not for a child&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nI see reflections of blond hair, short and young and free<br \/>\nCan he be trusted with the treasures<br \/>\nOr does he alone hold the key?<\/p>\n<p>The Texans fought for West Texas<br \/>\n(or so I&#8217;ve always thought)<br \/>\nThere was much for them to fight for<br \/>\nAs the pavement again slowly proves<br \/>\nThey won it and they can have it<br \/>\nToo much space for my mind to cross<br \/>\nThe Texans can have West Texas<br \/>\nAnd you can always have my love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaumont, TX 4:04am It&#8217;s as if the stories are true That love had taken on a physical pain In that I could not tell chronic from virus, Flesh from emotion And the Texans can have West Texas To do with what they wish They can keep their mile markers And the room for minds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":415,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}