{"id":1388,"date":"2011-09-25T01:27:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2020-05-30T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T23:07:29","slug":"flyover-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Flyover state of mind"},"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\/?p=1388\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><strong>Miami-Rio-Barra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Released from the ground<br \/>\nSick spattered walls washed and the guilty<br \/>\nSent away<\/p>\n<p>Country boys living in jet seats<br \/>\nUniforms and injuries<br \/>\nRhythm pushes the drone through new landscapes<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere a troll charges toll<br \/>\nHow we earn a whole new world<br \/>\nSubscribe,ransom, set up the pashas tent<br \/>\nPick a muddy field, a closet, a men&#8217;s room<br \/>\nAll these jobs posing as something else<br \/>\nGames are anything but<br \/>\nJobs are anything but<\/p>\n<p>Creating something with unseen goals<br \/>\nEmployed to do one thing, making art on the side<br \/>\nHistorians in stage blacks, selling memories and memorabilia<br \/>\nOur experience becomes the R&amp;D for others<br \/>\nAnd the weaning process for our own future<\/p>\n<p>Out the window, in the distance<br \/>\nThe dancing lights of the lampago de catatumbo<br \/>\nFar off in time and space<br \/>\nAnother planet, another heart<br \/>\nA soft silent sigh of shared song<br \/>\nThe toxic fumes of man, of earth, of woman<\/p>\n<p>Fly over state of your own history<br \/>\nToll paid, troll fed, what to make, what to make<br \/>\n25 years is time for many buildings, children grown<br \/>\nCars junked, canals cleaned, new streets for art and traffic<\/p>\n<p>Still here, still wondering<br \/>\nStill more than a few steps behind what moves me<br \/>\nThe push, the pull, looking in the wrong direction<br \/>\nOften gets the ire and the occasional perfect shot<br \/>\nWhen not obsessing over happiness or self destruction<\/p>\n<p>Still writing about the lights on the hills<br \/>\nAnd the sound of wind and surf<br \/>\nThe lines cross again and again<br \/>\nThe words wash up on the sand<br \/>\nOr fall from the sky blessed and undiscussed<\/p>\n<p>The fleeting lesson probably something simple<br \/>\nI yam what I yam and that&#8217;s all that I yam<br \/>\nCan I be content with that and sleep<br \/>\nAnd dream<br \/>\nAnd dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Rio-Barra Released from the ground Sick spattered walls washed and the guilty Sent away Country boys living in jet seats Uniforms and injuries Rhythm pushes the drone through new landscapes Somewhere a troll charges toll How we earn a whole new world Subscribe,ransom, set up the pashas tent Pick a muddy field, a closet, a 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