{"id":3923,"date":"2012-03-27T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2012-03-27T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T23:03:43","slug":"cacophony-gramophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2012\/cacophony-gramophone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cacophony (Gramophone)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The gramophone screams like a banshee<br \/>\nDiscontented and hungry it wails<br \/>\nLike wind bursting in the bubbled windows<br \/>\nThat grows pregnant under the pressure, pushing outward<br \/>\nUntil the smash and clatter of glass raining down<br \/>\nDisturbs the cold stark night air<br \/>\nLike the nightingale\u2019s melancholy melody for a blind poet<br \/>\nWhich rings like the rattle used to quiet<br \/>\nThe piercing shriek of a baby\u2019s newborn whimper<br \/>\nWhich sounds like a siren<br \/>\nRattling in the ear drum like a stormy sea<br \/>\nThat tried to fit into a seashell too small<br \/>\nAnd not strong enough to hold the raging waters<br \/>\nOf the ocean on a twisted cloudy day<br \/>\nSwirled with the salty wind of an ocean breeze<br \/>\nUntil the grey casts over all things<br \/>\nLeaving only a faint line to distinguish<br \/>\nThe two worlds of above and below<br \/>\nA gull\u2019s cry shatters the horizon<br \/>\nWith the force of a jarring catastrophe<br \/>\nThat leaves the world jolted and trembling<br \/>\nWaiting in that horrible suspense<br \/>\nOf a world untrusted and unstable<br \/>\n<em>Tremble trifling tower<\/em><br \/>\n<em> You will fall inevitably<\/em><br \/>\nIs the whispered wind\u2019s prayer<br \/>\nThat plays with the hair of widows<br \/>\nSitting in attics looking out small windows<br \/>\nInto a small empty world<br \/>\nCrying silent tears that hit the ground like sledgehammers<br \/>\nSignaling defeat on the dark day<br \/>\nWe cling together in the deafening storm<br \/>\nHugging tight and promising to never let go<br \/>\nEven though time is loosening our grips even as we speak<br \/>\nWe cannot weather this storm<br \/>\nNot this time<br \/>\nThis cacophony of chaos will tear us apart<br \/>\nThere you are sitting across this dark precipice<br \/>\nAnd I here nursing the sickly wail<br \/>\nOf a cracked gramophone<br \/>\nTrying to screech out the song of you and I<br \/>\nThat was never meant to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gramophone screams like a banshee Discontented and hungry it wails Like wind bursting in the bubbled windows That grows pregnant under the pressure, pushing outward Until the smash and clatter of glass raining down Disturbs the cold stark night air Like the nightingale\u2019s melancholy melody for a blind poet Which rings like the rattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1776,1778,1779,86,32,673,1777],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}