{"id":2124,"date":"2025-08-01T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:57:36","slug":"scavengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/2025\/08\/01\/scavengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scavengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the cool of the season<\/p>\n<p>In the frigid temperatures<\/p>\n<p>Sweeping up others like him<\/p>\n<p>\u266a Wandering \u266a<\/p>\n<p>He picks up rusty strings<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s long forgotten his mastery<\/p>\n<p>Only remembered the tune of a brunette&#8217;s song<\/p>\n<p>He picks up the faded pocket watch<\/p>\n<p>Even though the hands are dead<\/p>\n<p>And time goes on and on and on<\/p>\n<p>He picks up his ash-dusted pipe<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No longer in the mood he once was<\/p>\n<p>But he wants to fall into a pine of thought again<\/p>\n<p>He picks up wishes, he picks up fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>He picks up calls, he picks up echoes.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, what he picks up<\/p>\n<p>A hollow utopia<\/p>\n<p>An empty utopia<\/p>\n<p>We are all scavengers<\/p>\n<p>We are all scavengers, picking up an antidote to the slow change of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cool of the season In the frigid temperatures Sweeping up others like him \u266a Wandering \u266a He picks up rusty strings He&#8217;s long forgotten<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-poetry-en","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kpoem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}