{"id":34312,"date":"2013-07-28T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=34312"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:01:32","slug":"osheatwopoems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34312","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Editor\u2019s note: These poems first appeared in the collection, <\/em>Jonestown Lullaby<em>. Coverage of the book itself appears <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=34310\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Unsacred Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Social illusions, relics of exhausted thought<br \/>\nGone<br \/>\nEyes dead with a host of pills and syringes<br \/>\nHe lives in an unsacred zone of knotted secrecy<br \/>\nHis frail deistic plans unsuccessful<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">He claims to read my thoughts<br \/>\nYet<br \/>\nOther voices, of no celestial urging,<br \/>\nWhisper to his abandoned mind<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">His dismal squawkings on the jungle loudspeaker<br \/>\nGroan to the wind strange prophecies<br \/>\nOf approaching doom<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The terror grows<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I embark on a dark journey under a hollow sea<br \/>\nAngry victim of unfounded treason<br \/>\nI deliberate in the shadows<br \/>\nI lie beyond the hope of speech<br \/>\nThat has no cure for his deadly mind<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I plan my escape<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Unremembered<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">I almost woke up<br \/>\nWithout remembering<br \/>\nThose who had been deluded of their dignities<br \/>\nReduced to the quintessence of pain<br \/>\nExquisite and everlasting<br \/>\nThose who remain unremembered<br \/>\nWho died in no glory<br \/>\nThose who fell backward into their graves<br \/>\nIn the shadow of their fear<br \/>\nThose who are now past all concern<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But as the sun rose<br \/>\nTheir faces cascaded before my eyes<br \/>\nAs they vowed<br \/>\nNever to be unremembered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor\u2019s note: These poems first appeared in the collection, Jonestown Lullaby. Coverage of the book itself appears here.) Unsacred Zone Social illusions, relics of exhausted thought Gone Eyes dead with a host of pills and syringes He lives in an unsacred zone of knotted secrecy His frail deistic plans unsuccessful He claims to read my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34369,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51049,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34312\/revisions\/51049"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}