{"id":309,"date":"2013-06-16T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-06-16T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:30:16","slug":"309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/309\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the ending right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tight,<br \/>\nOn getting the ending right.<\/p>\n<p>Always; it starts with a bang,<br \/>\nOr a boom, or a blast,<br \/>\nBut it does not last.<br \/>\nComes down crashing,<br \/>\nLike the popped-corn,<br \/>\nThat takes off like a missile,<br \/>\nAn ambitious space ship may be, that won&#8217;t rest<br \/>\nSiphoning through space<br \/>\nOn an indefatigable mission, to orbit moon,<br \/>\nBut falls right back,<br \/>\nTo truffled butter flavor,<br \/>\nOr sometimes just a plain salty doom.<\/p>\n<p>Every time, it&#8217;s like a dawn.<br \/>\nThe brilliant spark of a bright idea,<br \/>\nApparently, whose time has but\u00a0come<br \/>\nEnthusiasm spilling through the sleeves<br \/>\nOf my creative genius,<br \/>\nThat remains to be proven<br \/>\nNot unlike<br \/>\nOverzealous expectant&#8217;s sweater,<br \/>\nThat never gets past<br \/>\nThirtieth row and the forty-sixth loop<\/p>\n<p>Bolder the beginning,<br \/>\nHarder the pull, Over and over<br \/>\nRegaling<br \/>\nOver and Over<br \/>\nOh, my! Wonderful lines<br \/>\nStarted like a starry night on canvas<br \/>\nAnd then\u00a0left to dry in the rain<\/p>\n<p>Stream of effervescent thoughts<br \/>\nGushing through my prefrontal<br \/>\nDisappear<br \/>\nPerhaps through my vestigial<br \/>\nInto the void of Universe<br \/>\nWhere Singularities confluence<br \/>\nTime and Space<br \/>\nAnd the simple laws debase<br \/>\nSome such<br \/>\nAbstract debauchery thus takes over<br \/>\nGenerating non-recyclable waste<br \/>\nOf words that could have been saved<\/p>\n<p>Starts like The\u00a0Prufrock Song,<br \/>\nAnd feels like the Essay on Man<br \/>\nBut always ends in a faltering plot<br \/>\nA miserable attempt at rescue<br \/>\nAnd an insidious everlasting pain<\/p>\n<p>QED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been tight, On getting the ending right. Always; it starts with a bang, Or a boom, or a blast, But it does not last. Comes down crashing, Like the popped-corn, That takes off like a missile, An ambitious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/309\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikdhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}