{"id":941,"date":"2004-10-13T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/13\/and-yet-it-doesnt-bother-anyone-who-matters\/"},"modified":"2004-10-13T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T01:12:00","slug":"and-yet-it-doesnt-bother-anyone-who-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/13\/and-yet-it-doesnt-bother-anyone-who-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"and yet it doesn&#8217;t bother anyone who matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner at my mothers was the mental equivalent of a stiff drink. It hits the back of your throat and burns into your blood. A quick shot of something nasty that helps later be slightly better. This has been the final lamb led to slaughter. My skin sings a different pitch. It&#8217;s been an interesting year. Many new people, handsome, wan, and thinking. So much is here, in this box. This screen lighting hours of silent clacking conversation. <\/p>\n<p>The three days are up. &#8220;Should I wait for you again? I&#8217;m waiting for you still though you&#8217;re here now&#8221;. He hasn&#8217;t answered, though we know the honest reply. There is love, but the desires are hollow. Kissing a simulacrum of a relationship. There is a time for things. Earlier this year, we synced in need, now we do not. It&#8217;s simple and clean, offset by the quickness of his smile. We match even now in this. <\/p>\n<p>My stomach is heavy now, feeling so weighted that I fancy if I were to lie down, I would be able to feel my vertebrae pushing into me from the inside. Each one a jangling note of pinched flesh. Jagged edged notes of sensation. Synthaesia creeping into my perception the less sleep I get. Tomorrow words might have colours again. It&#8217;s been a long time. I can no longer judge. A jade statue of a woman, blindfolded, with a measure in her hand. &#8220;They worshipped Justice&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is something all together too adult in this. My arrangements, my interactions with trust and defense. They work, but should they? I catch friend behavior changes, it starts with vocabulary and drifts silently into action and attitude. Mine are not the average kittenpaw, but they make sense. Livingroom anthropology, it sounds like a plan, eh? My music is on your playlist too. Twang pffffffffffft spark.<\/p>\n<p><i>She&#8217;s standing alone with long hair in her eyes. She&#8217;s singing. They watch as her slight body tips, leaning into the embrace of the wind. She won&#8217;t die this time. They put her together better. The red girder bridge is only a prop for the greatest of all shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner at my mothers was the mental equivalent of a stiff drink. It hits the back of your throat and burns into your blood. A quick shot of something nasty that helps later be slightly better. This has been the final lamb led to slaughter. My skin sings a different pitch. It&#8217;s been an interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/13\/and-yet-it-doesnt-bother-anyone-who-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;and yet it doesn&#8217;t bother anyone who matters&#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-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}