{"id":2086,"date":"2011-12-14T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2012-07-15T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T00:11:22","slug":"buks-drunken-waltz-by-henry-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/buks-drunken-waltz-by-henry-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Buk&#8217;s Drunken Waltz by Henry Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/buk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" title=\"buk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/buk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/buk.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/buk-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Beat back Days<br \/>\nlike Buk<br \/>\nhe<br \/>\nBeat back Rhyme<br \/>\nswallowed whiskey and made flowers<br \/>\nBuk punched hard<br \/>\ngave it cold in the guts<br \/>\nbrought home<br \/>\nthat there is no warmth<br \/>\nbeyond the mean<br \/>\nand no sense regardless<\/p>\n<p>Buk took Shears<br \/>\nto the world<br \/>\ncaught smoke<br \/>\nhurled wisdom at walls<\/p>\n<p>Buk eschewed Heart<br \/>\nwas home to<br \/>\nholed out tarts<br \/>\nand funeral bells<br \/>\nburning ends<br \/>\nand the drip of taps<br \/>\nthe ringing phone<br \/>\nin some hotel in middle america<br \/>\na\u00a0fight lost on the street<br \/>\na train ride through the night<br \/>\nwitch souls and queens<br \/>\nheroes and hounds<br \/>\nand Myth<br \/>\nburnt off by dawn<\/p>\n<p>Buk was the Muse<br \/>\nof the forgotten<br \/>\nthe hero of the empty<br \/>\nthe composer of our drunken waltzes<br \/>\nwith death and love<br \/>\nand all the other things\u00a0we lose<\/p>\n<p>A precious child<br \/>\nA beaten bluebird<br \/>\nAnd a pockmarked man<\/p>\n<p>I think I would have liked him<br \/>\nAnd that he would have liked me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat back Days like Buk he Beat back Rhyme swallowed whiskey and made flowers Buk punched hard gave it cold in the guts brought home that there is no warmth beyond the mean and no sense regardless Buk took Shears to the world caught smoke hurled wisdom at walls Buk eschewed Heart was home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}