{"id":41453,"date":"2017-08-06T05:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41453"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:05:43","slug":"gimmee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/gimmee\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimmee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gimmee<br \/>\nVCS <\/p>\n<p>Copy of a copy of a copy<br \/>\nSpinning into a lack of cogent<br \/>\nReality<br \/>\nThere is no definition<br \/>\nMaking out the lines<br \/>\nHas become foggy<br \/>\nMore of a guessing game<br \/>\nThan anything advertised <\/p>\n<p>None of us signed on for this<br \/>\nAnd there is more every day<br \/>\nWe need space<br \/>\nWe need originality<br \/>\nInstead of tightening ligatures<br \/>\nOf conformity <\/p>\n<p>As the boundaries get tighter and tighter<br \/>\nThe lyrics of the songs<br \/>\nBlur into one long litany<br \/>\nOf Gimmee Gimmee Gimmmee<br \/>\nThere isn&#8217;t enough for everyone<br \/>\nTo have everything they want <\/p>\n<p>Not when they don&#8217;t want it really<br \/>\nNot anyhow<br \/>\nOnce their fingers are on it<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s tossed to the side<br \/>\nThe next illusion chased <\/p>\n<p>All to the litany of gimmee gimmee gimmee<br \/>\nIt never gets<br \/>\nIt only takes<br \/>\nThe dance of the copy machine<br \/>\nAll running around<br \/>\nTrying to look, act and talk the same<br \/>\nshaming anyone who dares to stand <\/p>\n<p>gimmee gimmee gimmee<br \/>\ncopy copy copy<br \/>\nyou won&#8217;t ever get what you&#8217;re wanting<br \/>\nNot this way<br \/>\nthis isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;re here for<br \/>\nNone of us really want this anyway <\/p>\n<p>The dance of nihilism continues<br \/>\nEvery single day<br \/>\nKilling the pain with whatever comes<br \/>\nUp the nose, with a pill, in a vein on a VISA card<br \/>\nGimmee gimmee gimmee<br \/>\nThe copies fade more each day <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gimmee VCS Copy of a copy of a copy Spinning into a lack of cogent Reality There is no definition Making out the lines Has become foggy More of a guessing game Than anything advertised None of us signed on for this And there is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41782,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41453\/revisions\/41782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}