{"id":1100,"date":"2011-12-12T02:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2017-07-11T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T06:04:06","slug":"neon-on-the-outskirts-at-the-break-of-dawn-by-allan-safarik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/neon-on-the-outskirts-at-the-break-of-dawn-by-allan-safarik\/","title":{"rendered":"Neon on the Outskirts at the Break of Dawn by Allan Safarik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allan.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1101 lazyload\" title=\"allan\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allan-300x184.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allan-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/allan.png 616w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/184;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Neon on the Outskirts at the Break of Dawn<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Allan Safarik<\/p>\n<p>Washed out neon in the morning sun like a fish out of water<br \/>\nA swift silence follows the odd vehicle travelling through town<br \/>\nthere are no people on the sidewalks as the crows fly up<br \/>\nfrom the main intersection when the light changes to green<br \/>\nthey know they have enough time to get out of the way<br \/>\nThey flutter back on the pavement behind the back window<br \/>\nas if to claim the emptiness that will soon by filled by traffic<br \/>\ngoing to work or moving down the highway to the next place<br \/>\ntaking the black spaces with them from under the motel beds<br \/>\nThere is no reason to leave them behind without a reason<br \/>\nWater from their morning showers trickles into the ground<\/p>\n<p>A smoking cigarette butt left behind in an asphalt parking lot<br \/>\nlast memory like a gob of spit left on a motel bathroom mirror<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t ask me why certain people want to be remembered<br \/>\nor why those intelligent birds want to play in that intersection<br \/>\nSoon enough it&#8217;s all a minor memory of washed out colour<br \/>\nthat ruled the night in magic illustrations of neon splendour<br \/>\nEven the bristling prairie stars were put in the background<br \/>\nby the pulse of electronic graffiti owning complete darkness<br \/>\nLife in meaning only partially told before it answers back<br \/>\nlaughing bravely at the stranger elements of blind faith<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll be there tomorrow or the next day waiting for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon on the Outskirts at the Break of Dawn by Allan Safarik Washed out neon in the morning sun like a fish out of water A swift silence follows the odd vehicle travelling through town there are no people on the sidewalks as the crows fly up from the main intersection when the light changes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}