{"id":728,"date":"2006-11-03T10:49:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/1-28-91-laundry\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:30:25","slug":"1-28-91-laundry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=728","title":{"rendered":"1-28-91 Laundry"},"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=728\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>L.A.<\/p>\n<p>How can a home be a home<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re just passing through?<br \/>\nGive a name to a place<br \/>\nI spend more time elsewhere&#8230;<br \/>\nNow I can belong home<br \/>\nIn every parking lot I wake in<br \/>\nNot this place where chores abound,<br \/>\nWhere desperate faces mistake me for him;<br \/>\nPacks of battered vermin wait<br \/>\nFor something I&#8217;ve never waited for.<\/p>\n<p>I still look with love and pain<br \/>\nClutching my soaking clothes<br \/>\nPlaying pickle between a dryer and a parked car<br \/>\nThese shattered remains prodding paper and lint<br \/>\nLooking, searching, dying for leftovers<br \/>\nThat no one would want but them&#8230;<br \/>\nMy fear of harm replaced by a mirror<br \/>\nMe crawling on a carpet, looking, searching, dying.<\/p>\n<p>Can they feel anything anymore?<br \/>\nEven I felt from time to time<br \/>\nLove&#8217;s nagging glow caress my neck<br \/>\nRun it&#8217;s digits through my hair, never judging.<br \/>\nWhy now it changes<br \/>\nEven grows in new directions<br \/>\nMy submission makes it so<br \/>\nTo accept it on levels beyond prior reach<br \/>\nWhen grabbing never really worked<br \/>\nGiving in and letting it wash over me<br \/>\nNot afraid to drown, die or feel.<\/p>\n<p>To be broken by a piece of paper<br \/>\nTouched by all around, quite strong now<br \/>\nHonor and honesty share many of the same letters<br \/>\nLove comes unexpected, my path clear<br \/>\nI need not know what lies ahead<br \/>\nOnly to feel<br \/>\nat home<br \/>\nwith myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L.A. How can a home be a home When you&#8217;re just passing through? Give a name to a place I spend more time elsewhere&#8230; Now I can belong home In every parking lot I wake in Not this place where chores abound, Where desperate faces mistake me for him; Packs of battered vermin wait For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-bK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728"}],"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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4418,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/728\/revisions\/4418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}