{"id":979,"date":"1988-09-12T00:09:49","date_gmt":"1988-09-12T07:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:11:28","slug":"strangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/09\/12\/strangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamefully recompose the several moments<br \/>\nElucidating wasted water and light<br \/>\nWasted air and fire<br \/>\nWasted existence.<\/p>\n<p>Waste the existence, as moments are recomposed:<br \/>\nEarth, decomposed.<\/p>\n<p>Set down the moment!<br \/>\nSpare the moment<br \/>\n(for there are many more).<br \/>\nSpare the torment of a decomposing mind,<br \/>\nRecomposing moments,<br \/>\nDecomposing existence.<\/p>\n<p>Consolidation of time in moments<br \/>\nLeaving unworthy tempests,<br \/>\nTo set aside and grab the throat of time.<\/p>\n<p>The throat of time is grasped and held and squeezed.<br \/>\nExistence gasps for breath,<br \/>\nAs moments squeeze the throat of time,<br \/>\nStrangle the throat of time,<br \/>\nMocking the throat of time,<br \/>\nStrangle, strangle, strangle.<\/p>\n<p>Existence &#8211; murdered &#8211;<br \/>\nStrangled by the very moments<br \/>\nThrough the time that gave it life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamefully recompose the several moments<br \/> Elucidating wasted water and light<br \/> Wasted air and fire<br \/> Wasted existence.<\/p>\n<p>Waste the existence, as moments are recomposed:<br \/> Earth, decomposed.<\/p>\n<p>Set down the moment!<br \/> Spare the moment<br \/> (for there are many more).<br \/> Spare the torment of a decomposing mind,<br \/> Recomposing moments,<br \/> Decomposing existence.<\/p>\n<p>Consolidation of time [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","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\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}