{"id":2604,"date":"2010-03-07T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2010\/03\/07\/a-new-poem-octavia-blue\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T04:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T09:12:52","slug":"a-new-poem-octavia-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/07\/a-new-poem-octavia-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Poem | &#8220;Octavia Blue&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s relax for a moment.<br \/>\nA raison d&#8217;\u00eatre will be our token.<br \/>\nThe city is broken.<br \/>\nThe few who&#8217;ve moved here haven&#8217;t spoken.<\/p>\n<p>The fugue in Boston will have it lit for March,<br \/>\nSpringing a dolphin jump over Constantine&#8217;s Arch.<br \/>\nBut they can&#8217;t make their decisions in any sort of style.<br \/>\nIt means we&#8217;ll be waiting in this district of oranges for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The valley of the beast<br \/>\nNeeds a decent release.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good the smoke&#8217;s stopped here<br \/>\nBefore killing all the Hudson&#8217;s flock of deer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve looked at you for a moment.<br \/>\nWow, I didn&#8217;t die or become frozen!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve taken the Chinese coast by storm<br \/>\nSoon my personality there will be all the norm.<\/p>\n<p>They will be drinking my blood in Calcutta,<br \/>\nDrunks scrapping the Ganges for God, or the son of.<br \/>\nYesuf they call him? He came here a few years?<br \/>\nYes, here he learned the tricks to tear the Devil to tears.<\/p>\n<p>By what caravan did he arrive jaded in gems?<br \/>\nOh alone, discreet, no one can even swear it was him.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t understand these new age Gods:<br \/>\nNot flashy, they&#8217;re more subtle with their charms.<\/p>\n<p>Did he visit the Buddha&#8217;s holy tree?<br \/>\nYes, there he envisioned how his would turn out to be.<br \/>\nDid he think the Empire would have come this far?<br \/>\nYeah, but he never dreamed things would get so dark.<\/p>\n<p>Shall we return to the tavern for one more drink?<br \/>\nYes, by Jove, it&#8217;s the only thing that let&#8217;s us think!<br \/>\nOne more question is nagging me: what about the girl?<br \/>\nOh, he thought &#8217;bout it a while, but then figured he&#8217;d save her<br \/>\nFor the next World.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n<p>Posted via email from stephenpickering&#8217;s posterous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s relax for a moment. A raison d&#8217;\u00eatre will be our token. The city is broken. The few who&#8217;ve moved here haven&#8217;t spoken. The fugue in Boston will have it lit for March, Springing a dolphin jump over Constantine&#8217;s Arch. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/07\/a-new-poem-octavia-blue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[70,429],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poem","tag-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}