{"id":204,"date":"1986-02-22T16:41:32","date_gmt":"1986-02-23T00:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:10:52","slug":"i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/02\/22\/i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Am<br \/>\nYes I am the thief.<br \/>\nYes, the thief.<\/p>\n<p>Crime for me was<br \/>\nNot as crime for<br \/>\nThe convict,<br \/>\nBut crime still.<br \/>\nStill and ever more:<br \/>\nCrime.<\/p>\n<p>I am the thief.<\/p>\n<p>I am the brain.<br \/>\nYes, the brain.<\/p>\n<p>I am the nerve center<br \/>\nOf that body known as me.<br \/>\nAnd I am me.<br \/>\nThe brain of wisdom;<br \/>\nThe brain of analysis;<br \/>\nThe brain of control.<\/p>\n<p>I am the brain.<\/p>\n<p>I am the expression.<br \/>\nYes, the expression.<\/p>\n<p>I am the expression<br \/>\nOf my thoughts:<br \/>\nThe artistic expression;<br \/>\nThe emotional expression;<br \/>\nThe linguistic expression;<br \/>\nThe facial expression.<\/p>\n<p>I am the expression.<\/p>\n<p>I am also the lover.<br \/>\nYes, the lover.<\/p>\n<p>I am the lover<br \/>\nOf my lover:<br \/>\nThe lover of life;<br \/>\nThe lover of the brain,<br \/>\nThe expression,<br \/>\nAnd the thief.<\/p>\n<p>I am the lover.<\/p>\n<p>I am the hope.<br \/>\nYes, the hope.<\/p>\n<p>I am the hope that<br \/>\nAll may come,<br \/>\nAnd all shall remain<br \/>\nSo my love of life,<br \/>\nThe brain, the expression,<br \/>\nAnd the thief<br \/>\nWill be there for<br \/>\nAll of time.<\/p>\n<p>I am the hope.<\/p>\n<p>I am the builder.<br \/>\nYes, the builder.<\/p>\n<p>I build my dreams in air,<br \/>\nCastles of mine:<br \/>\nCastles of mind.<br \/>\nCastles that are the<br \/>\nExpression of my thoughts,<br \/>\nOf my desires.<br \/>\nCastles in which I shall remain<br \/>\nFor all of time.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the builder.<\/p>\n<p>I am always the way.<br \/>\nYes, the way.<\/p>\n<p>I am the way to my dreams,<br \/>\nMy castles, and my expressions.<br \/>\nI am the way to my mind.<br \/>\nI am the way through my brain.<br \/>\nI am the fulfillment of my hope.<br \/>\nI have built my self.<\/p>\n<p>And as the thief,<br \/>\nI have taken my way<br \/>\nAway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am<br \/> Yes I am the thief.<br \/> Yes, the thief.<\/p>\n<p>Crime for me was<br \/> Not as crime for<br \/> The convict,<br \/> But crime still.<br \/> Still and ever more:<br \/> Crime.<\/p>\n<p>I am the thief.<\/p>\n<p>I am the brain.<br \/> Yes, the brain.<\/p>\n<p>I am the nerve center<br \/> Of that body known as me.<br \/> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}