{"id":379,"date":"1987-07-06T17:48:38","date_gmt":"1987-07-07T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:42","slug":"how-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/06\/how-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A life as this life<br \/>\nWhere it would seem<br \/>\nAll must be done to reverse<br \/>\nThe lack of order of the universe,<br \/>\nWhere menial organization<br \/>\nAnd petty desires must be appeased,<br \/>\nWhere flagrant actuality requires<br \/>\nThe things in which we believe;<br \/>\nThis life takes and<br \/>\nRequires and expends<br \/>\nOur diminutive energies.<\/p>\n<p>Energies thus spent trying to<br \/>\nReverse the infinite disorder<br \/>\nOf the universe,<br \/>\nSpent in chasing and satisfying<br \/>\nInsatiable desires,<br \/>\nSpent in nefarious creation and<br \/>\nWorshipping of<br \/>\nEphemeral Gods,<br \/>\nLeads to chronic insufficiency<br \/>\nOf time.<\/p>\n<p>How can there ever be the time<br \/>\nTo Appease the insatiable,<br \/>\nReverse the infinite or<br \/>\nWorship the fallacious.<br \/>\nThere can never be the time<br \/>\nTo grow and to live.<\/p>\n<p>How tired may one become,<br \/>\nHow weary and despondent,<br \/>\nChasing the impossible,<br \/>\nAppeasing the insatiable,<br \/>\nWorshipping the fallacious.<br \/>\nHow tired I am.<br \/>\nYet how compelled I am<br \/>\nTo live and<br \/>\nContinue in this life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A life as this life<br \/> Where it would seem<br \/> All must be done to reverse<br \/> The lack of order of the universe,<br \/> Where menial organization<br \/> And petty desires must be appeased,<br \/> Where flagrant actuality requires<br \/> The things in which we believe;<br \/> This life takes and<br \/> Requires and expends<br \/> Our diminutive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}