{"id":456,"date":"2018-10-22T02:28:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=456"},"modified":"2018-09-12T02:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T02:36:10","slug":"poetry-by-sam-waszkelewcicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/22\/poetry-by-sam-waszkelewcicz\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Sam Waszkelewcicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Sam Waszkelewcicz is a writer and door to door salesman living in West Hartford Connecticut. His work has appeared only on scrap pieces of paper and notebooks that he tucks away in the back pocket of his Levi&#8217;s.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Twin Bed<\/h3>\n<p>You me and the dog<br \/>\nCrammed together in our twin bed<br \/>\nUs spooning<br \/>\nAnd the dog nestled in between our feet<br \/>\nNeither of us able to move<br \/>\nI always slept perfectly however<br \/>\nThe type of sleep one dreams of having<br \/>\nAnd Now that the two of you are gone<br \/>\nI cannot sleep<br \/>\nFor there\u2019s far too much room<br \/>\nIn this ocean of a tiny bed<br \/>\nThat was once all ours<br \/>\nAnd is now<br \/>\njust mine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What a Juxtaposition<\/h3>\n<p>One day<br \/>\nSitting in a chair<br \/>\nI straddled<br \/>\nThe two realms of<br \/>\nthe earths skin<\/p>\n<p>To the right<br \/>\nIt was lost long ago<br \/>\nLost to the first butthole<br \/>\nFucked in the city<br \/>\nForgotten in a cubby hole of a bar<br \/>\nWhere last call never comes<\/p>\n<p>And to the left<br \/>\nI hear<br \/>\nI am the king of the house<br \/>\nI am the king of my dreams<br \/>\nI am kevin<br \/>\nPizza!<br \/>\nAs the swing goes higher and higher<\/p>\n<p>We yearn for<br \/>\nThe swing, to stay<br \/>\nWith filtered eyes<br \/>\nAnd that purity<br \/>\nBut at some point we all get up<br \/>\nAnd walk towards the black hole<\/p>\n<p>Leaving all of that<br \/>\nSchool house stuff<br \/>\nBehind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Lottery<\/h3>\n<p>My space is nothing<br \/>\nbut a hand ticking<br \/>\nA white walled straight jacket<br \/>\nThere\u2019s movement<br \/>\nIn peripheral<br \/>\nBut to touch<br \/>\nOr speak<br \/>\nAre a lottery away<br \/>\nHave you ever seen the odds<br \/>\nOf winning?<br \/>\nPlease play<br \/>\nResponsibly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Waszkelewcicz is a writer and door to door salesman living in West Hartford Connecticut. His work has appeared only on scrap pieces of paper and notebooks that he tucks away in the back pocket of his Levi&#8217;s. &nbsp; Twin Bed You me and the dog Crammed together in our twin bed Us spooning And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2018\/10\/22\/poetry-by-sam-waszkelewcicz\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-7m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}