{"id":1165,"date":"2003-10-01T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2003-10-01T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T06:39:00","slug":"poetry-what-is-wrong-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/poetry-what-is-wrong-with-me","title":{"rendered":"Poetry? What is wrong with me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrier lights flickering in dusky twilight<br \/>\nInformation dancing up a storm<br \/>\nVU meters dip to the beat, high as shit<br \/>\nSomething about this scene is not the norm<\/p>\n<p>Closing off the pulse, looking for the darkness<br \/>\nTurning up the dreams, looking for the light<br \/>\nComing down from dreams, looking for a answer<br \/>\nSomething about this scene is not quite right<\/p>\n<p>Words scroll endlessly on the windows<br \/>\nPeople attest to care who lives or dies<br \/>\nInformation living out it&#8217;s microsecond lifespan<br \/>\nPackets racing, no thought to hows or whys<\/p>\n<p>Tube fed babies nestling in the flickering mirrors<br \/>\n&#8220;Buy now, you must have our product to be right&#8221;<br \/>\nHard drive lights flashing on all the servers<br \/>\nCommercialism blazing terabits into the night<\/p>\n<p>One single human sits behind one single desk<br \/>\nThinking of one other single human who couldn&#8217;t care less<br \/>\nOne single finger strikes one single key<br \/>\nOne single answer finds its way to me<\/p>\n<p>City spinning outward, the myriad millions<br \/>\nnine tenth asleep \/ one tenth awake<br \/>\neach one dreaming of commercialized answers<br \/>\nbe rich and own a BMW, for capitolism&#8217;s sake<\/p>\n<p>Did you see me there behind the windows<br \/>\nCould you recognize the flavor of my words<br \/>\nIf I called tomorrow would you even answer<br \/>\nIf I cried out, could you say you heard<\/p>\n<p>Poetry, they say, is so self centered<br \/>\nHard to imagine other, fictional plights<br \/>\nBut you can write other people&#8217;s stories<br \/>\nYou can send your own kilobits into the night<\/p>\n<p><b>Hack the Spew!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrier lights flickering in dusky twilight Information dancing up a storm VU meters dip to the beat, high as shit Something about this scene is not the norm Closing off the pulse, looking for the darkness Turning up the dreams, looking for the light Coming down from dreams, looking for a answer Something about this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}