{"id":1003,"date":"1988-10-05T00:23:46","date_gmt":"1988-10-05T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:24:57","slug":"satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/10\/05\/satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would leave right now, but,<br \/>\nFor the pain of satisfaction,<br \/>\nAm compelled in this forgotten woe<br \/>\nTo go on.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this satisfaction&#8217;s pain,<br \/>\nHave seen this putrefaction&#8217;s gain,<br \/>\nWherein lost hopes and wanton ways<br \/>\nAre paved and plastered to the<br \/>\nWalls of a hall of sorrow &#8211;<br \/>\nA hall of fame.<\/p>\n<p>A famous hall with plastered walls,<br \/>\nWhich bear the names of you and I &#8211;<br \/>\nThe satisfied &#8211; in pain.<\/p>\n<p>And satisfaction&#8217;s predilection<br \/>\nTakes its toll on those who know<br \/>\nAnd those whose knowledge is ignored<br \/>\nAnd those whose knowledge does implore<br \/>\nThem not to satiate all desires of this world.<\/p>\n<p>I would leave right now, but<br \/>\nFalse satisfaction&#8217;s gains, less elusive<br \/>\nThan the pain,<br \/>\nEntrance me in this dance of fame.<br \/>\nThe fame does push me on,<br \/>\nUntil when famous I have gone,<br \/>\nAnd gone on and on and on in God-sent pain.<\/p>\n<p>There would be no time to tell<br \/>\nThrough the pain of God-sent hell<br \/>\nWhat a satisfied desire should be like.<br \/>\nFor desire&#8217;s satisfaction is the<br \/>\nSpirit&#8217;s putrefaction:<br \/>\nOnly desires non-existent are satisfied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would leave right now, but,<br \/> For the pain of satisfaction,<br \/> Am compelled in this forgotten woe<br \/> To go on.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen this satisfaction&#8217;s pain,<br \/> Have seen this putrefaction&#8217;s gain,<br \/> Wherein lost hopes and wanton ways<br \/> Are paved and plastered to the<br \/> Walls of a hall of sorrow &#8211;<br \/> A hall [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}