{"id":527,"date":"2020-09-25T19:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/?page_id=527"},"modified":"2020-09-25T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:22:06","slug":"527-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/?page_id=527","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Mask I Wear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, I wear the mask of the clown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as hunger\u2019s icy claws create a chilling scene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>wallpapered over by a bubblegum and popcorn flat screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while truth and justice in a sea of illusion drown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As greed and wealth wear the emperor\u2019s crown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see poverty\u2018s yoke drive the labouring crowd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>always their path in repression\u2019s cloud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a macabre vision from village to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope a distant flickering flame<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While justice is a moment on a TV screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but in their lives, is rare and lean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a mere vacuous character in a cruel game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still I wear the mask of the clown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even as the rewards of my labouring skills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are nothing more than brightly coloured happiness pills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>beads and bobbles to appease my menacing frown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to cast off the mask, show my face<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>let my desires rise, my hopes expand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>righteous anger wash illusions from our land<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>see justice and freedom in their rightful place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with the people hand in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mask I Wear. See, I wear the mask of the clown as hunger\u2019s icy claws create a chilling scene wallpapered over by a bubblegum and popcorn flat screen while truth and justice in a sea of illusion drown. As &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/?page_id=527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radicalglasgow.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}