{"id":3081,"date":"2024-05-27T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:37:16","slug":"wakeup-and-daydream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/05\/27\/wakeup-and-daydream\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakeup and Daydream"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n <\/p>\n

Wakeup and Daydream<\/strong><\/p>\n

When was it
\nYou left the Door
\nto Your Holy
\nInner Sanctum
\nopen?<\/p>\n

Where You keep
\nYour Canvases
\nand Paint Brushes,
\nYour Pens and Ink
\nand Manuscripts,
\nYour Movie Cameras
\nand Dancing Shoes,
\nYour Costumes and
\nMakeup?<\/p>\n

When did the Cadre
\nof Drill Instructors
\nmarch in
\nwith plastic bags
\nand garbage cans
\nand scoop and sweep
\nuntil all that was left
\nwas a bare floor<\/p>\n

just big enough
\nfor a desk and
\nsome filing cabinets and
\na To Do List?<\/p>\n

Where You once
\nDanced on Tightropes,
\nSwung Words on
\nthe Trapeze,
\nmade Movies
\nof Bare-legged Beauties
\non Bareback Horses,
\nand Painted
\nCircus Clowns
\nwith too much Lipstick?<\/p>\n

Now You mostly do
\nTo Do.<\/p>\n

Is it Time to
\nWake Up and
\nDaydream,
\nshow The Drill Sergeants
\nthe Door?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not
\nToo Late to
\nRun Away and
\njoin The Circus.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Raphael Maksian; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Wakeup and Daydream When was it You left the Door to Your Holy Inner Sanctum open? Where You keep Your Canvases and Paint Brushes, Your Pens and Ink and Manuscripts, Your Movie Cameras and Dancing Shoes, Your Costumes and Makeup? When did the Cadre of Drill Instructors march in with plastic bags and garbage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t