{"id":1013,"date":"2017-12-08T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2017-12-08T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:00:01","slug":"death-decks-out-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Death Decks Out (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death decks out in painful forms,<br \/>\nstaggered hours and waiting lines,<br \/>\nfighting foul earth winds and storms,<br \/>\nsearching for more grand designs.<\/p>\n<p>Man is fruitless, funny, hollow,<br \/>\ntrapped inside a shell of time.<br \/>\nLeaders fall and nations follow.<br \/>\nDeath alone can solve the rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>Tick on, clock with broken hands.<br \/>\nComfort ages. Sorrow stands.<br \/>\nHope eternal, spring anew,<br \/>\nas we bid our time adieu.<\/p>\n<p>Push a button for a vision.<br \/>\nDrop a coin into a slot.<br \/>\nMan approaches his decision.<br \/>\nTime is slow but death is not.<\/p>\n<p>Dig ye deep and dig ye plenty.<br \/>\nNo one knows his length of stay.<br \/>\nSome bow out at ten or twenty.<br \/>\nOthers crawl toward judgement day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death decks out in painful forms, staggered hours and waiting lines, fighting foul earth winds and storms, searching for more grand designs. Man is fruitless, funny, hollow, trapped inside a shell of time. Leaders fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1013\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2084,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2084","url_meta":{"origin":1013,"position":0},"title":"Orange Is the New Blue","author":"Rick Young","date":"October 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This episode is quite upsetting, until you unravel the why. This autocrat will not suffer defeat. In fact, he would much rather die. And so, there's a plan now to fake his demise. He's hired the Jeff Epstein crew. 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