{"id":1019,"date":"2004-11-07T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/11\/07\/playing-cards\/"},"modified":"2004-11-07T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T00:53:00","slug":"playing-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/11\/07\/playing-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"playing cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have your caped crusaders with their epic wars and little guns, but this is my smoking weapon.  There&#8217;s something in me that wants to write tonight. It could be that I&#8217;m stuck at home. I can&#8217;t walk right now, a cripple for a day or two because my dancing is hard on the body. I don&#8217;t know what the reason is, but there&#8217;s things inside my head buzzing. A thought about <i>the girl you told her you loved her, but you didn&#8217;t. Was it lying if you thought it was the truth? We&#8217;re all lonely, you know. It&#8217;s my epiphany, knowing that. I&#8217;m in control now of all of you because I&#8217;m beautiful.<\/i> Words and words and words, unconnected by maybe going somewhere. I don&#8217;t know what to do with them and I&#8217;m tired. Something&#8217;s melting in my head.<\/p>\n<p>  It feels like a resistance to something, something I don&#8217;t know if I can take. I need to be aware at all times of the reality of what&#8217;s going on. There is no slipping into reverie. I can&#8217;t let go, it&#8217;s wrong to. Pragmatic in all, I don&#8217;t get fantasies, I don&#8217;t picture scenes when I&#8217;m reading. I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;m writing this, but I&#8217;m dulled by pain and exhaustion. Defenses down and I never talk about it. <\/p>\n<p>  I&#8217;m terrified of losing control. I usually blame my father but it&#8217;s so much more. Every time I grab a lover by the wrist and pin their arm above their head I think how easy it would be to break their arm. Insanity runs in the family, it&#8217;s generations of seeing ghosts and demons. Our genetics sing violence. I want it to not be me, but what if it is? I should be fine for now, but what when I head into thirty? I need to be solid. We have a temper, we do. Thick and red, it acidly eats the hearts of our enemies, it stabs and kicks and scalps us of sanity. Mine is so far thrown down that I wonder if I can touch it anymore. I can&#8217;t be dangerous, I won&#8217;t let me. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I will read this and wonder why. Let me sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have your caped crusaders with their epic wars and little guns, but this is my smoking weapon. There&#8217;s something in me that wants to write tonight. It could be that I&#8217;m stuck at home. I can&#8217;t walk right now, a cripple for a day or two because my dancing is hard on the body. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/11\/07\/playing-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;playing cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}