{"id":413,"date":"1987-07-21T11:22:01","date_gmt":"1987-07-21T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:01:47","slug":"dysthanasia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/21\/dysthanasia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dysthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we lie here, listless, and lament,<br \/>\nHelpless with this lost lost cause,<br \/>\nThe extirpation men call wars.<br \/>\nAnd technology: man&#8217;s own cerement,<br \/>\nAs listlessly we lay here and lament<\/p>\n<p>This life, this death,<br \/>\nThis dysthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>As we lay composing our own threnodies,<br \/>\nDoubtful, chant the long long dirge,<br \/>\nIrreverent in self-inflicted scourge,<br \/>\nAnd laugh at incontinent maladies,<br \/>\nAs we lie here composing threnodies on<\/p>\n<p>This life, this death,<br \/>\nThis dysthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>As here we lay morose, and contemplate<br \/>\nOur inadequacy, all, all obduracy,<br \/>\nImmutably set down in history.<br \/>\nSorrowful; no sense to vituperate,<br \/>\nHere, lachrymose, as we contemplate<\/p>\n<p>This life, this death,<br \/>\nThis dysthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>Here, laying in our dysthanasia,<br \/>\nNo longer caring, nor culpable<br \/>\nFor this future irrefutable,<br \/>\nOr history&#8217;s hard hard edification,<br \/>\nHere, in this, our dysthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>This life, this death,<br \/>\nThis dysthanasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we lie here, listless, and lament,<br \/> Helpless with this lost lost cause,<br \/> The extirpation men call wars.<br \/> And technology: man&#8217;s own cerement,<br \/> As listlessly we lay here and lament<\/p>\n<p>This life, this death,<br \/> This dysthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>As we lay composing our own threnodies,<br \/> Doubtful, chant the long long dirge,<br \/> Irreverent in self-inflicted scourge,<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}