{"id":965,"date":"2004-10-18T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/18\/lifting-me-up\/"},"modified":"2004-10-18T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T13:01:00","slug":"lifting-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/18\/lifting-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"lifting me up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dancing on spider&#8217;s wings. My phone&#8217;s died, leaving me without voice to the outside world. Shameful, really, that I allow it to get into such a state, but oh! To send my glittering nets out skimming facetime. See who appears at my door. Being both needle and thread, tatting an evening out of a peculiar miracle. Chaos controlling, my favourite. Under the skin conditioning, supple and smooth. I assure you that your name is important to me, you sweet wordsmith beauty queen. The broken smile&#8217;s fixed, replaced by a mild &#8220;you make me feel rainbows&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Call any time you want.<\/p>\n<p>Outside my window the world&#8217;s been cunningly replaced with christmas card cut-out of trees. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it will ever be okay again. I shudder inside when I hear your name. With permission, I&#8217;d like to slip sex into your morning coffee. Quiver and gasp, silent in my eyes. Clever compromise, I never had any choice in the matter. Come to my window, I will pull you in. Conduit heat and passion. I&#8217;ll learn for you. Brief chances at happiness, I know. Forgive me in my youth. Allow me this, I have a habit of bringing back immortality. Impure dream with me, trace the curve of my hip with your fingerful gaze. Done right, there&#8217;s nothing to corrupt. This is pristine, made of whispers in darkness and an ocean between.<\/p>\n<p>Hair-dye hum, all of it&#8217;s plum purple yours to curl fingers into. A shipment of my things arrives today, every packed box a mystery of it&#8217;s own making. People to help me haul know less maybe then I do. Words never said, dresser drawers emptied into cardboard surprises. Later I finally record my voice. Jagged notes maybe, burrs to catch in clothing and stumble over. Clearly, enough to bind me by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dancing on spider&#8217;s wings. My phone&#8217;s died, leaving me without voice to the outside world. Shameful, really, that I allow it to get into such a state, but oh! To send my glittering nets out skimming facetime. See who appears at my door. Being both needle and thread, tatting an evening out of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/18\/lifting-me-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;lifting me up&#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-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}