{"id":310,"date":"2025-10-13T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:48:08","slug":"minotaur-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/13\/minotaur-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Minotaur (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Minotaur<\/strong><br><br>Lewd hooves trample geometry,<br>pointlessly soluble. Gastric potency grows.<br>Pain secretions, whispered and dependable,<br>paralyze duty. Honor drips<br>from the eye, handsomeness from the crusted horn.<br>Maturity&#8217;s neither required nor mourned,<br>childhood is broken glass and daisies underfoot.<br>Distant chimes of declarations echo.<br>Echo of steps ago of years.<br>Fade never echoes nor stop.<br>Only voices, baffled, halt.<br>Pursuer pursues into sleep,<br>walking strides on, release recedes.<br>Is forgotten. Is only ever this,<br>where your mother dropped you bloody.<br>Bit through the cord<br>and wrapped your slick red fingers around it,<br>a sign for you that follow you.<br>The cord that&#8217;s cud to ruminating molars.<br>Beehives in corners ooze and buzz.<br>Organ blood ebbs in falling rhythm.<br>Hot breeze of brute breath sickens.<br>Your thigh bones soften, bend.<br>Read their curves as oracles for navigation.<br>All things decay, save confusion.<br><br><em>\u2014 Basil Cartryte<\/em><br><em>2025-10-13<\/em><br><br><em>Halloween Day 13<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewd hooves trample geometry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[34,35,10],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-2025","category-poetry","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-2025","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}