{"id":1156,"date":"2011-06-30T02:55:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T02:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=1156"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:45:03","slug":"sweta-srivastava-vikram-611","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/sweta-srivastava-vikram-611\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweta Srivastava Vikram, 7\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Addiction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I never met the black sheep<br \/>\nin my family who swum with waves<br \/>\nof indiscretion. He was out cold,<\/p>\n<p>asleep in a cedar box decades<br \/>\nbefore I was born or he could smell<br \/>\nthe next of his kin. But stories<\/p>\n<p>of his youth that never saw<br \/>\na rainbow echoed in the mouth<br \/>\nand tonsils of everyone older \u2013<\/p>\n<p>an only child, spoilt by unavailable time,<br \/>\nhe drowned his body in an ocean<br \/>\nof cravings day after day \u2013<\/p>\n<p>arms full of crevices, nose stuffed<br \/>\nwith powder of white poison,<br \/>\nlungs stifled with smoke, his mother\u2019s womb shed<\/p>\n<p>tears the color of blood without oxygen.<br \/>\nDid the sheep know about the wool<br \/>\nit was about to lose? No one can say<\/p>\n<p>since graves and their keepers don\u2019t talk,<br \/>\nbut sometimes happiness is slapped,<br \/>\nor it closes doors, and it\u2019s nobody\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addiction I never met the black sheep in my family who swum with waves of indiscretion. He was out cold, asleep in a cedar box decades before I was born or he could smell the next of his kin. 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