{"id":429,"date":"2026-06-25T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=429"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:38:21","slug":"the-acid-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/?page_id=429","title":{"rendered":"THE ACID OF LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">So many poems about love \u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">but you don&#8217;t need them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">So many poems about spring \u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">but what&#8217;s the point for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">In your veins \u2014 acid.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">(black, filthy sludge)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">It feeds you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">It lets you stand upright.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\">(And no one will doubt it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\">You were killed as a child \u2014 still small, still a child \u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\">and the world didn&#8217;t feed you love from the cradle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\">It fed you a thousand sharp shards!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\">They pierced you, left wounds on your soul.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\">And without wanting to \u2014 you grew a tyrant inside yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 wp-block-paragraph\">The child grew up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-16 wp-block-paragraph\">Left alone with yourself \u2014 you understand:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-17 wp-block-paragraph\">the acid controls you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18 wp-block-paragraph\">*(2019)*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many poems about love \u2014&nbsp; but you don&#8217;t need them.&nbsp; So many poems about spring \u2014&nbsp; but what&#8217;s the point for you? In your veins \u2014 acid.&nbsp; (black, filthy sludge)&nbsp; It feeds you.&nbsp; It lets you stand upright.&nbsp; (And no one will doubt it.) You were killed as a child \u2014 still small, still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-429","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddolganov.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}