{"id":760,"date":"2006-11-03T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1992\/1-15-92-adrift\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T21:45:28","slug":"1-15-92-adrift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=760","title":{"rendered":"1-15-92 Adrift"},"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=760\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Port Elizabeth,South Africa<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to write,I have to<br \/>\nBecause talking to water bottles and chairs won&#8217;t do<br \/>\nI&#8217;m slowly pulling away like a charter boat<br \/>\nIts horn announcing that it won&#8217;t be there<br \/>\nTo be admired or dreamed about<br \/>\nMy friends on the dock are not waving<br \/>\nEyes elsewhere,deaf to traffic<\/p>\n<p>(Or perhaps it&#8217;s just a water faucet calling into the night.)<\/p>\n<p>I watch my own hand extended<br \/>\nPalm out,palm down,never up<br \/>\nThe silent words never heard,never mouthed<br \/>\nOnly behind chained doors do they see the light of day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How long will I prevent the heat of chance an audience<br \/>\nbefore me?<br \/>\nCan change breathe life into a soul with both hands<br \/>\nacross its mouth?<br \/>\nCan values maintain their integrity in a vacuum growing?<br \/>\nTo stop thinking and just to live<br \/>\nTo be on my own side<br \/>\nTo sleep,to sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Elizabeth,South Africa I don&#8217;t want to write,I have to Because talking to water bottles and chairs won&#8217;t do I&#8217;m slowly pulling away like a charter boat Its horn announcing that it won&#8217;t be there To be admired or dreamed about My friends on the dock are not waving Eyes elsewhere,deaf to traffic (Or perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-cg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/760"}],"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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/760\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}