{"id":1325,"date":"1992-11-28T19:05:19","date_gmt":"1992-11-29T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2012-12-09T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:06:15","slug":"this-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1992\/11\/28\/this-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"This poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tormented avenger,<br \/>\nwe would see you imitate<br \/>\nmithradites, unerring in<br \/>\nsuch a wanton diligence;<\/p>\n<p>and yet, can there be any hope?<br \/>\nany hope for hope?<br \/>\nwhen I break the putrid silence<br \/>\nimposed on yourself by yourself?<\/p>\n<p>such hope is all that really matters<br \/>\nto you,<br \/>\nto me.<\/p>\n<p>hope that the poison will not kill you,<br \/>\nbut by some means unknown, immortalize you.<br \/>\nSuch is the silence<br \/>\nimposed on the insane by the tormented.<br \/>\nThat is you.<\/p>\n<p>You see the last sliver of light fade,<br \/>\nabruptly returning you to the darkness<br \/>\nyou feared,<br \/>\nthe darkness you wished to avoid;<br \/>\nthe darkness inherent in the poison<br \/>\nyou take.<\/p>\n<p>the poison you give.<\/p>\n<p>the poison I tasted<br \/>\nbut did not want to drink&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and drink anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I shall meet you there,<br \/>\nwe shall join hands again.<\/p>\n<p>We shall, inevitably, die.<\/p>\n<p>There is no immunity from this poison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tormented avenger,<br \/> we would see you imitate<br \/> mithradites, unerring in<br \/> such a wanton diligence;<\/p>\n<p>and yet, can there be any hope?<br \/> any hope for hope?<br \/> when I break the putrid silence<br \/> imposed on yourself by yourself?<\/p>\n<p>such hope is all that really matters<br \/> to you,<br \/> to me.<\/p>\n<p>hope that the poison will [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","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=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}