{"id":343200,"date":"2018-01-10T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cotton-candy-fever-rush-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:00:10","slug":"cotton-candy-fever-rush-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cotton-candy-fever-rush-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Candy Fever Rush | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-75527\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Scott Thomas Outlar \/ January 7th, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Across my spine is a shiver shake<br \/>electric in its natural rhythm<br \/>from the boil in the gene swarm<br \/>to the lava licking atoms\u2019 lust<br \/>all I ever wanted was a true love<br \/>back before I was a tadpole<br \/>turning tricks in the primal soup<br \/>catching waves when the moon cries<br \/>cotton candy blistered sugar lips<br \/>razor thin with the sweetest shave<br \/>cutting years off my lifeline<br \/>shove the clock with a deep push<\/p>\n<p>In my mind is a pile of gold<br \/>silver shimmer in the syrup heat<br \/>when the sheets wrinkle through the night<br \/>wake up sweating with a fever rush<br \/>hold me close when I crave the truth<br \/>shadow dancing with the heart\u2019s pulse<br \/>organs singing in the shower loud<br \/>twist the echo toward a new realm<br \/>screaming lullabies on the mountaintop<br \/>when the lion starts to really roar<br \/>need my fox here to guide the vision<br \/>cast out the cards and close three eyes<\/p>\n<p>Scott Thomas Outlar is a lover of truth and enjoys researching<br \/>philosophy, psychology, politics, spirituality, and any other facet of<br \/>consciousness in the pursuit of reaching a higher state of vibration.<br \/>He also enjoys writing rants, poems, essays, short stories, and<br \/>prose-fusion screeds covering such subjects. <\/p>\n<p>Scott Thomas can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:17numa@gmail.com\">17numa@gmail.com<\/a>.   You can also watch and\/or subscribe to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7i5QcDK6_pVl2TyzK9fEiQ\">YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/scottthomasoutlar\/\">Read other articles by Scott Thomas<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/17numa.wordpress.com\/\">visit Scott Thomas&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, January 7th, 2018 at 8:02am and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/poetry\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Poetry<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/01\/cotton-candy-fever-rush\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Scott Thomas Outlar \/ January 7th, 2018 Across my spine is a shiver shakeelectric in its natural rhythmfrom the boil in the gene swarmto the lava licking atoms\u2019 lustall I ever wanted was a true loveback before I was a tadpoleturning tricks in the primal soupcatching waves when the moon criescotton candy blistered sugar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}