{"id":1280,"date":"1992-09-19T18:19:58","date_gmt":"1992-09-20T01:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:35:18","slug":"stolid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1992\/09\/19\/stolid\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not moved;<br \/>\nstolid and bleak<br \/>\nthe countenance remains<br \/>\n(the only way to deal<br \/>\nwith the suffering and pain),<br \/>\nthough pained I am not<\/p>\n<p>(there is no apparent pain).<\/p>\n<p>I barely know of the affliction<br \/>\nthough it troubles me still,<br \/>\nthe agony around me<br \/>\ntakes me and<br \/>\nteaches me to face<br \/>\na grim reality:<\/p>\n<p>the reality of this illusion.<\/p>\n<p>(and oh god it&#8217;s so real!)<\/p>\n<p>Stolid and bleak,<br \/>\nthe outlook remains<br \/>\n(still the only way to approach<br \/>\nthis suffering and pain).<\/p>\n<p>Yet, within many,<br \/>\na light rises up<br \/>\nand fills the hearts.<\/p>\n<p>(Such is the power of impending doom.)<\/p>\n<p>With an insecure peace,<br \/>\na calm,<br \/>\na brief smattering of life again.<\/p>\n<p>(such is the power of a laugh).<\/p>\n<p>And a laugh rising up and taking them,<br \/>\nwhile unmoved, indignified I am.<br \/>\nTo sit and to stare<br \/>\nand wonder<br \/>\nat all of this,<br \/>\nso mechanical,<br \/>\nso stolid and bleak.<\/p>\n<p>Ha! can the power of a laugh<br \/>\nreally move me?<\/p>\n<p>Ha! It seems no-one gives a damn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not moved;<br \/> stolid and bleak<br \/> the countenance remains<br \/> (the only way to deal<br \/> with the suffering and pain),<br \/> though pained I am not<\/p>\n<p>(there is no apparent pain).<\/p>\n<p>I barely know of the affliction<br \/> though it troubles me still,<br \/> the agony around me<br \/> takes me and<br \/> teaches me to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}