{"id":319,"date":"2020-03-24T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:33:18","slug":"counting-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/counting-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Counting Pills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>If dying was easy, I would have done it\nsooner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would\nyou believe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>me\nif I told you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nwasn\u2019t really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>counting\npills? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would\nyou believe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>me\nif I said I wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ready\nto go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nwhiskey bottle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is\nempty, so too<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the\npill bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nwhite, blue,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>green\nand cream<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are\nsupposed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to\nmake me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite\ntheir efforts, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nremain in my black hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\npills slither down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nslow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nfeel the atria lurch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>followed\nby the ventricles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nrhythm falters,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>draws\nto a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\ndoesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Black\nCoffee Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; August\n2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting Pills &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If dying was easy, I would have done it sooner Would you believe me if I told you I wasn\u2019t really counting pills? Would you believe me if I said I wasn\u2019t ready to go? The whiskey bottle is empty, so too the pill bottles. The white, blue, green and cream are&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/counting-pills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Counting Pills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}