{"id":3280,"date":"2024-05-11T23:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T04:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2025-01-02T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:20:41","slug":"face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2024\/05\/face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">With a wistful gaze<br> you wondered aloud about<br>how we are living out our movies,<br> wearing our masks,<br> following our scripts.<br>Wondered what your mother and father<br> and the rest of your team of angels<br> might be thinking of you,<br> your hair spiritedly disheveled \u2014<br> a wild iris accented with streaks of gray \u2014<br>I thrilled to take in your face,<br> suddenly realizing the splotches<br> on your cheeks weren\u2019t bad makeup<br> but simply your ruddy flesh.<br>I got lost in your pouty baby lips<br> whose pink smudged past your cupid's bow<br> \u2014 not lipstick, mind you \u2014 just a natural blending.<br>I feasted on your two too cute buckteeth.<br> Your outer incisors curved to match the<br>  bend of your bottom lip.<br>I drank in your large eyes<br> as they peered off into the distance,<br> perhaps resting upon some spiritual plane,<br> and such assured, adept creases caressed them.<br>You transformed into some cherubic Hispanic<br> version of Marilyn Monroe-cum-Isabella Rossellini.<br><br>I, who had witnessed my body<br> dissolve into blisters over the years<br> and fought tooth and nail for a few more<br> in the vain hope of getting it back<br> to finally be able to sit at a table with you<br>  over a cup of coffee<br>  and share a slice of cake.<br> <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a wistful gaze you wondered aloud abouthow we are living out our movies, wearing our masks, following our scripts.Wondered what your mother and father and the rest of your team of angels might be thinking of you, your hair spiritedly disheveled \u2014 a wild iris accented with streaks of gray \u2014I thrilled to take [&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":[27],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-heart-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","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=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}