{"id":125,"date":"2016-10-05T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/without-those-within\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:11:00","slug":"without-those-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/without-those-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Those Within"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITHOUT THOSE WITHIN<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry May 1969.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nThe bright light is dimly lit<\/span>
\nand barely burns deep within the shadows<\/span>
\nof the tomb-gloom cellars of my mind.<\/span>
\nThrough the dusty, webbed, barred and unwelcoming<\/span>
\nwindows shoot,<\/span>
\nprancing, leaping, gaily reaping images of<\/span>
\nluminous suns with tons and tons of fun<\/span>
\nin velvet sacks, containing stacks and stacks of everything,<\/span>
\nfrom dolly birds to hors-d’\u0153uvres and jovial words.<\/span>
\nBut here I stand with mumbles and grumbles,<\/span>
\nstumbling and fumbling.<\/span>
\nThe mind tumbles and crumbles<\/span>
\nthe cellars knocking, mocking, constantly rocking,<\/span>
\nsenses reeling, void of feeling, voices squealing.<\/span>
\nRat chase rat in a tat race vat.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nThrough the keyhole’s narrow tunnel,<\/span>
\ntapering like a paraffin funnel<\/span>
\nfalls bright and brighter lights cascading,<\/span>
\nemitting chills, positively scintillating.<\/span>
\nDrink unceasingly descending into glasses, served to asses,<\/span>
\ngetting fat and fatter.<\/span>
\nMusic blares through speakers,<\/span>
\namplifying, electrifying,<\/span>
\ncreating great sensations.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nMy trampled flat soul, slid under the cellar door<\/span>
\nlike a seawashed sandy shore.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nSilhouetted on the wall<\/span>
\nan image, so black and so small,<\/span>
\nin vain it tires to crawl up the wall.<\/span>
\nI watch it, I watch it fall.<\/span>
\nI hear it, I hear it call.<\/span>
\nI see it squat in a human knot.<\/span>
\nMy shadow flat soul withdrawing,<\/span>
\nunable to communicate,<\/span>
\nprisoned within me.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nHands that having reached out and clutched the brittle bones<\/span>
\nof society,<\/span>
\nwere burnt and the dust of this society blows into my eyes,<\/span>
\nobscuring my view.<\/span>
\nI, lost, in this vast incomprehensible world,<\/span>
\nam snared in the quicksand of my own confusion.<\/span>
\nYet back into the world I go,<\/span>
\nclutching my transistor radio.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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WITHOUT THOSE WITHIN \u00a9Trev Teasdel, Coventry May 1969. The bright light is dimly lit and barely burns deep within the shadows of the tomb-gloom cellars of my mind. Through the dusty, webbed, barred and unwelcoming windows shoot, prancing, leaping, gaily … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}