{"id":9865,"date":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hlrecord.org\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2013-04-19T00:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T04:40:28","slug":"poem-callbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrecord.org\/poem-callbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem &#8211; Callbacks<br \/>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> BY ANONYMOUS POET<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Callbacks<\/p>\n<p>By Anonymous 2L Poet<\/p>\n<p>Into the gray soul of the city<\/p>\n<p>Flew most willing<\/p>\n<p>From metal to the metal returned<\/p>\n<p>Happily dined on the crimson Word<\/p>\n<p>Us few, from dirt and grain and wide sunrises<\/p>\n<p>Reluctantly entered their cacophonic temples<\/p>\n<p>We took the Word, not we must?<\/p>\n<p>We yearn for the old gods forgotten<\/p>\n<p>Crying out: what went before the steel spirit?<\/p>\n<p>Set&#8217;s knives rust in the Nile<\/p>\n<p>Enlil&#8217;s priestesses to desert dust<\/p>\n<p>The Yama Kings silent in judgment<\/p>\n<p>A million howling midnight rites<\/p>\n<p>Extinguished by steel and manufactured light<\/p>\n<p>The Age of Cities holds the Monoliths<\/p>\n<p>Billion-believer kings of crescent and cross<\/p>\n<p>We cry out: why did you die?<\/p>\n<p>We would not embrace the steel gods if you had not<\/p>\n<p>Must we forget the torch-banished darkness of hill and dale?<\/p>\n<p>And Set turned with a whirring oil-fueled click<\/p>\n<p>Enlil LOADED between the flickering images<\/p>\n<p>The Yama Kings twinkled in the skyscraper windows<\/p>\n<p>Spoke in the humming cadence of the electronic virtual as it      raced through the lines<\/p>\n<p>We only died, the voices of ancient knives, when we were old <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callbacks By Anonymous 2L Poet Into the gray soul of the city Flew most willing From metal to the metal returned Happily dined on the crimson Word Us few, from dirt and grain and wide sunrises Reluctantly entered their cacopho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hlsnews"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.8 - 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