{"id":8752,"date":"2023-10-29T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8752"},"modified":"2023-10-29T17:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:38:25","slug":"two-haiku-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8752","title":{"rendered":"<strong>two haiku<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tohm Bakelas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>i\u2019ll die before i can retire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the killer smiles\u2014<br>cicada songs in my head\u2014&nbsp;<br>i keep on walking&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>true story<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>depressed, stoned and alone\u2014&nbsp;<br>i find myself watching&nbsp;<br>the x-files again<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TOHM BAKELAS<\/strong>&nbsp;is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He was born in New Jersey, resides there, and will die there. He is the author of twenty-five chapbooks and several collections of poetry, including \u201cCleaning The Gutters of Hell\u201d (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). He runs Between Shadows Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tohm Bakelas i\u2019ll die before i can retire the killer smiles\u2014cicada songs in my head\u2014&nbsp;i keep on walking&nbsp; true story depressed, stoned and alone\u2014&nbsp;i find myself watching&nbsp;the x-files again &nbsp; TOHM BAKELAS&nbsp;is a social worker in a psychiatric hospital. He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8748,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2ha","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8752\/revisions\/8768"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}