{"id":745,"date":"2006-11-03T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/10-18-91-room\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:03:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T01:03:02","slug":"10-18-91-room","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=745","title":{"rendered":"10-18-91 Room"},"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=745\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Guangzhou,China<br \/>\nThe act to turn a chair 180 degrees<br \/>\nFrom introspection to looking out over<br \/>\nForeign sights<br \/>\nSitting on a gilded pedestal<br \/>\nNot of my choice,of my being<br \/>\nMy platform so elaborate in appearance<br \/>\nBuilt of the same mortar,water,sweat<br \/>\nFear,imperfect as are all things man touches,<br \/>\nAs the buildings that surround me<br \/>\nAs they are not the same washed out pale pink<br \/>\nOf another place,corporate choice,dream,<br \/>\nGray government pourings for the many<br \/>\nSo new the ribbon not yet cut<br \/>\nFacilities and furniture missing as the scrambling,<br \/>\nHammering,how many hammers,hail on a glass roof,<br \/>\nStorm front with a lunch break,rhythm<br \/>\nNever recorded,what are they doing,hurrying<br \/>\nCan not tell them from a knock at the door<br \/>\nInterrupting,apology,forgotten accessories<\/p>\n<p>I smile inside and out<\/p>\n<p>And I,American,visitor,intruder,looking out and in,<br \/>\nSee the people pointing,smiling,wondering why<br \/>\nA massive different thing with bright multicolored legs<br \/>\nWould sit in a backwards chair,watching them work<br \/>\nThat there must be something,anything<br \/>\nFor me to do,be,elsewhere<br \/>\nAnd I then agree<\/p>\n<p>As the wind blows the new flags around<br \/>\nAs the fire&#8217;s tail turns white from black<br \/>\nBamboo scattered beneath my lazy feet<br \/>\nClean and waiting for an assignment<br \/>\nThe pipe cutters and muck trawlers go on<br \/>\nThey commune with the Earth as I spin<br \/>\nInside my head<br \/>\nI wish I knew what they were doing<br \/>\nWill I ask,will I explore&#8230;no,<\/p>\n<p>Not today,<\/p>\n<p>I feel as if I am by the river<br \/>\nDirty,wet,wrong,sucked into the mud<br \/>\nTrapped,frozen from action,not by politics,<br \/>\nOr pain,illness or thought<br \/>\nBut by the subtle jailer these people know<br \/>\nThat we all know,all of my selves know<br \/>\nWho is choice<br \/>\nWhere man is divine for a second,deserving or not,<br \/>\nAnd the path remains the same<br \/>\nThe muddy footprints always the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guangzhou,China The act to turn a chair 180 degrees From introspection to looking out over Foreign sights Sitting on a gilded pedestal Not of my choice,of my being My platform so elaborate in appearance Built of the same mortar,water,sweat Fear,imperfect as are all things man touches, As the buildings that surround me As they are [&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-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745"}],"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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions\/4423"}],"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=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}