{"id":794,"date":"2006-11-03T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1997\/1-8-97\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T00:14:12","slug":"1-8-97","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=794","title":{"rendered":"1-8-97 can&#8217;t get there from here"},"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=794\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Albuquerque,NM<\/p>\n<p>Again, so much time passes<br \/>\nBetween collection of words<br \/>\nAnd the images pile up<br \/>\nThe fears and dreams of a people;<br \/>\nNature&#8217;s unpublished itinerary;<\/p>\n<p>A rich couple beside the road<br \/>\nLooking for what their wealth can&#8217;t secure<br \/>\nIn the shadow of a well detailed car<br \/>\nJust over a wet, loose hill<br \/>\nFrom painful smiles and one way stares&#8230;<br \/>\nNo matter,<br \/>\nTo look elsewhere<br \/>\nWhere danger lurks, awards and punishes<\/p>\n<p>Do the selfish come from the place<br \/>\nWhere the lonely sigh?<br \/>\nJustify the need for a glove<br \/>\nOn a hand forgotten in the cold<\/p>\n<p>Snow falls<\/p>\n<p>The gods block the road and keep us safe<br \/>\nThe heart and mind tell the groin to shut the fuck up<br \/>\nSilence only stalls tears better spent elsewhere<br \/>\nA simple life has a pain all its own<br \/>\nAnd a slave to gratification will find no comfort<br \/>\nAnd his feet will be unable to run along the path<br \/>\nTo find easy answers<\/p>\n<p>And people will speak of happiness<br \/>\nAs if it were a relative term, a goal<br \/>\nA place to live, to earn towards, to escape to<br \/>\nAnd the images pile up<br \/>\nA scattered handful of Polaroids<br \/>\nLost beneath layers of rarely needed things<br \/>\nIn a heavy black bag on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque,NM Again, so much time passes Between collection of words And the images pile up The fears and dreams of a people; Nature&#8217;s unpublished itinerary; A rich couple beside the road Looking for what their wealth can&#8217;t secure In the shadow of a well detailed car Just over a wet, loose hill From painful smiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":793,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-cO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/794"}],"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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/794\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}