{"id":626,"date":"2007-03-13T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=626"},"modified":"2007-03-13T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T15:48:27","slug":"skid-row-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2007\/03\/13\/skid-row-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Skid Row Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nI could have done a lot worst than sit<br \/>\nIn Skid Row drinkin wine<\/p>\n<p>To know that nothing really matters after all<br \/>\nTo know there&#8217;s no real difference<br \/>\nBetween the rich and the poor<br \/>\nTo know that eternity is neither drunk<br \/>\nnor sober, to know it young<br \/>\nand to be a poet<\/p>\n<p>Coulda gone into business and ranted<br \/>\nAnd believed that God was concerned<\/p>\n<p>Instead I squatted in lonesome alleys<br \/>\nAnd nobody saw me, just my bottle<br \/>\nAnd what they saw of it was empty<\/p>\n<p>And I did it in cornfields &#038; graveyards<\/p>\n<p>To know that the dead don&#8217;t make noise<br \/>\nTo know that the cornstalks talk (among<br \/>\nOne another with raspy old arms)<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in alleys diggin the neons<br \/>\nAnd watching cathedral custodians<br \/>\nWring out their rags neath the church steps<\/p>\n<p>Sitting and drinking wine<br \/>\nAnd in railyards being divine<\/p>\n<p>To be a millionaire &#038; yet prefer<br \/>\nCurlin up with a poorboy of tokay<br \/>\nIn a warehouse door, facing long sunsets<br \/>\nOn railroad fields of grass<\/p>\n<p>To know that the sleepers in the river<br \/>\nAre dreaming vain dreams, to squat<br \/>\nIn the night and know it well<\/p>\n<p>To be dark solitary eye-nerve watcher<br \/>\nOf the world&#8217;s whirling diamond<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Jack Kerouac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could have done a lot worst than sit In Skid Row drinkin wine To know that nothing really matters after all To know there&#8217;s no real difference Between the rich and the poor To know that eternity is neither drunk nor sober, to know it young and to be a poet Coulda gone into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-a6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}