{"id":29,"date":"2004-05-30T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T18:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-11-10T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T14:48:00","slug":"dissertation-conjuration-or-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/05\/dissertation-conjuration-or-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Conjuration; or, What It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dissertation Conjuration; or, What it is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An information overload<br \/>Implodes my logic into scrambled code<br \/>Proliferation underlined<br \/>But not an argument within to find<\/p>\n<p>The twinned abyss eyeballs me back<br \/>The one side swarms, the other lacks<br \/>Nothing to grasp, no teeth to bite<br \/>So what it is today I just can&#8217;t fight<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try another metaphor<br \/>I&#8217;m surfing over the mutation&#8217;s roar<br \/>But with no sky nor even dawn<br \/>&#8211; The structures that we all depend upon &#8211;<br \/>The sand sinks in and liquid flows<br \/>The co-infection site within me grows<br \/>Exchanging agents of more change<br \/>So what it is I&#8217;m getting rearranged<\/p>\n<p>The lines of truth and fiction blur<br \/>As though their bleedthroughs weren&#8217;t already sure<br \/>To lure me into scenting nodes<br \/>That map the network of the mother lode<\/p>\n<p>I try again, it&#8217;s all for naught<br \/>I don&#8217;t know what it is that I ain&#8217;t got<br \/>The spiderwebs turn in my head<br \/>And try to tell me I&#8217;m already dead<\/p>\n<p>All vectors&#8217; pathways laced with chance<br \/>And fate, the strange attractor&#8217;s hidden dance<br \/>I conjure synchronicity <br \/>Beam through your secret ledge-ability<\/p>\n<p>-(Copyright VirusHead, contact for permissions)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original poem&#8230; The twinned abyss eyeballs me back \/ The one side swarms, the other lacks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-creative","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}