{"id":132,"date":"2009-04-12T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/poemas\/ceniza\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:16:48","slug":"ceniza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/obras\/poemas\/ceniza\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>(a.k.a. Another Song on Lack of Communication)<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBecause the good in life escaped with you,<br \/>\nI search for it in other people\u2019s navels<br \/>\nand keep on saying<br \/>\n\u201coh, this is great\u201d<br \/>\nand it\u2019s my mouth that lies and not my waist<\/p>\n<p>but a bed without you is an entrenchment,<br \/>\nmy lover\u2019s the unknown soldier,<br \/>\nhostage taken.<br \/>\nMy war goes on and on on every pathway.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will turn up around every corner<br \/>\nand I think you don\u2019t know that I\u2019m still waiting.<br \/>\nI sometimes wonder<br \/>\nwhat would you say:<br \/>\nYou\u2019d say that you still like me and you would kiss<br \/>\nstranger\u2019s lips, you\u2019re not to blame.<br \/>\nI do the same indeed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sad how our song faded away.<br \/>\nThe words of our dancing feet are silent,<br \/>\nand now that it\u2019s mine,<br \/>\nfucking only provides the chorus line<\/p>\n<p>but orgasms without you are simply questions,<br \/>\nthe stain of my goodbye has turned a pun.<br \/>\nAnd kisses feel like tongue-in-cheek tongue twisters<br \/>\nwhich try to fill -but empty- my existence.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you will turn up around the next corner.<br \/>\nI think you already guessed what I\u2019m expecting.<br \/>\nI sometimes wonder:<br \/>\nwill you be waiting?<br \/>\nBut you\u2019d never advance a single word<br \/>\nuntil you\u2019re sure,<br \/>\nand I am doubtless,<br \/>\nbut that\u2019s something I wouldn\u2019t dare to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>So I put into this pocketful of absence<br \/>\nmy words, but your imaginary voice<br \/>\ncan\u2019t fill the emptiness<br \/>\nthat only your phone call could feed<\/p>\n<p>cause a poem without you is a thesaurus,<br \/>\nthe report in my private TV news,<br \/>\nand days became the slow tick-tack of waiting,<br \/>\ncorridors in hospitals, wax melting.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(a.k.a. Another Song on Lack of Communication) &nbsp; Because the good in life escaped with you, I search for it in other people\u2019s navels and keep on saying \u201coh, this is great\u201d and it\u2019s my mouth that lies and not my waist but a bed without you is an entrenchment, my lover\u2019s the unknown soldier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":125,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/5167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}