{"id":203,"date":"2004-09-23T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=203"},"modified":"2004-09-23T19:54:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T19:54:35","slug":"get-me-away-from-here-im-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/09\/23\/get-me-away-from-here-im-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Get me away from here I&#8217;m dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nLondon, I&#8217;m leaving you<br \/>\nLondon, I&#8217;ve given you my all and I&#8217;m becoming less and less<br \/>\nLondon twenty-third of september two-thousand and four<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand it any more<br \/>\nYou can keep the casual brutality of the tube<br \/>\nThe hours lost travelling<br \/>\nA city not built to a human scale<br \/>\nThe rootless anonymity of the crowds<br \/>\nThe indifference of fear<\/p>\n<p>London, I&#8217;m sick of your insane demands<br \/>\nLondon, when will you be worthy of your overblown reputation?<br \/>\nLondon, when can I go into the supermarkets and buy back the hours I lost commuting?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m addressing you<br \/>\nAre you really going to let your emotional life be run by mammon?<br \/>\nDo we all really believe our own PR?<br \/>\nAre you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?<br \/>\nIt occurs to me that I am being unfair<br \/>\nI am talking to myself again<\/p>\n<p>London, you are a vampire city<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like national service &#8211; compulsory, crowded, dirty and with a pervading air of violence. I&#8217;ve done my year, I want out<br \/>\nA hundred pretty distactions and no time or money to do them<br \/>\nLondon this is quite serious<br \/>\nLondon this is the impression I get from a year of busy insecurity<br \/>\nLondon is this correct?<br \/>\nI&#8217;d better get right down to the job<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s true I don&#8217;t want to be in Westminster or drink in expensive wine-bars, I&#8217;m misanthropic and maladjusted anyway.<br \/>\nLondon, I&#8217;m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>As of now I am based in Sheffield. With apologies to Allen Ginsberg.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, I&#8217;m leaving you London, I&#8217;ve given you my all and I&#8217;m becoming less and less London twenty-third of september two-thousand and four I can&#8217;t stand it any more You can keep the casual brutality of the tube The hours lost travelling A city not built to a human scale The rootless anonymity of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-3h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}