{"id":1349,"date":"2012-08-20T02:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T02:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:13:40","slug":"coffee-by-tim-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/coffee-by-tim-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee by Tim Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/timh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1351 lazyload\" title=\"timh\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/timh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"162\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 237px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 237\/162;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Tim Heron<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He rolls off the sofa<br \/>\nStumbles into the kitchen<br \/>\nThe table&#8217;s a riot<\/p>\n<p>Cigarette butts macerate<br \/>\nIn yesterday&#8217;s drinks<br \/>\nHe stares blankly<br \/>\nHis stomach empty<br \/>\nHis skin sweaty<br \/>\nIn yesterday&#8217;s clothes<\/p>\n<p>He swallows a cup<br \/>\nOf coffee<br \/>\nCold<br \/>\nGlances<br \/>\nAt the clock<br \/>\nHands<br \/>\nLocked<br \/>\nWill tomorrow<br \/>\nNever come<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nBorn in Belfast the year of the Chernobyl meltdown, I was raised on red wine and dusty books in France.<br \/>\nSince then I&#8217;ve been searching for myself and stumbling through life, at times amazed by beauty and symmetry, at times intrigued by the dark and profane.<br \/>\nI publish my poems on the following blog :<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/justtheash.tumblr.com\/tagged\/poem\">http:\/\/justtheash.tumblr.com\/tagged\/poem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He rolls off the sofa<br \/>\nStumbles into the kitchen<br \/>\nThe table&#8217;s a riot<\/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":[409,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-poems","category-inspirational-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","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=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}