I might have thought by now<\/p>\n
you would have found the exit<\/p>\n
from the hall of mirrors.<\/p>\n
But no. You are mesmerized<\/p>\n
by its dreamy distortions,<\/p>\n
imprisoned by its illusions.<\/p>\n
Perception arises from wave<\/p>\n
lengths and shadows, reflections<\/p>\n
against a shifting surface.<\/p>\n
Tall becomes short, wide<\/p>\n
becomes narrow. Eyes bulge,<\/p>\n
then shrink into shocked sockets.<\/p>\n
You must linger to feed the hunger.<\/p>\n
Within the funhouse walls,<\/p>\n
where the insecure, the paranoid,<\/p>\n
the narcissistic control the asylum,<\/p>\n
the Great Sphincter,<\/p>\n
sustained by his Ras Putin coterie,<\/p>\n
emits his daily surprises<\/p>\n
to the surprise of no one<\/p>\n
but the angry, the gleeful gullible,<\/p>\n
the sheep led to COVID slaughter<\/p>\n
while wildfires consume the hallways.<\/p>\n
Is the funhouse aflame?<\/p>\n
Now that changes the climate<\/p>\n
amid the melting glass<\/p>\n
of the deteriorating mirrors.<\/p>\n
Alas.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Jim Schwab<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I might have thought by now you would have found the exit from the hall of mirrors. But no. You are mesmerized by its dreamy distortions, imprisoned by its illusions. Perception arises from wave lengths and shadows, reflections against a shifting surface. Tall becomes short, wide becomes narrow. Eyes bulge, then shrink into shocked sockets. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,868,179,1540,63,214,563,226,395,130],"tags":[1029,1685,1681,1690,1683,1682,1687,1585,1684,1689,1015,1686,1688],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-art","category-climate-2","category-coronavirus","category-history","category-literature-2","category-politics","category-racism","category-wildfire","category-writing-2","tag-asylum","tag-covid","tag-funhouse","tag-great-sphincter","tag-hall-of-mirrors","tag-illusion","tag-melting-glass","tag-narcissistic","tag-paranoia","tag-perception","tag-putin","tag-rasputin","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimschwab.com\/Hablarbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}