{"id":1646,"date":"2011-03-25T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2024-12-17T23:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T04:25:01","slug":"torch-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2011\/03\/torch-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Torch Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">It's hard to carry a tune<br>Some, singing from their youth,<br> seem naturally talented<br>We are such picky receivers<br>Yet, what a delight when some song<br> pushes our buttons<br> over and over again<br> playing ourselves<br> back to ourselves<br>Winds up in a mystical collection<br>Yet no way to share with another<br> the depth of its echoes through us<br> the hidden\u2013spot tickle of its touch<br>Agony unshared<br>A dread to share<br>As like it falls on deaf ears<br> the horror of triggers missing in another<br> the tip\u2013top registers of our soul<br>And this some polished piece of painstaking production<br>How much more terrifying<br> when we play ourselves<br>I trip along as the band plays on<br> I might look queer, but I'm certain<br> no one holds a candle to my music<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to carry a tuneSome, singing from their youth, seem naturally talentedWe are such picky receiversYet, what a delight when some song pushes our buttons over and over again playing ourselves back to ourselvesWinds up in a mystical collectionYet no way to share with another the depth of its echoes through us the hidden\u2013spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-dragonfly-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}