{"id":1609,"date":"2024-11-30T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:11:07","slug":"doesitdripdownyourthroat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/doesitdripdownyourthroat\/","title":{"rendered":"Does It Drip Down Your Throat? By Jacob Lorigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<em>Does it drip down your throat, thick and black?<\/em><br \/>\nWe miss the crimson warmth, the coppery tang.<br \/>\nWe the shadows that block out the moon,<br \/>\na banshee&#8217;s wail on the wind\n<em>Is it the stench of decay rotting your flesh?<\/em><br \/>\nWe lurk upon the threshold, in fragments.<br \/>\nCraving the living, forever rabid\n<em>Does it consume you, ravenously?<\/em><br \/>\nThese gums have split, to reveal our fangs.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d drain a corpse dry, still demanding more.<br \/>\nWe have died a thousand deaths and come back, unnatural.\n<em>Whose blood do you thirst for?<\/em><br \/>\nThe wretched,<br \/>\nthe weak,<br \/>\nthe innocent,<br \/>\nthe cursed.<br \/>\nThe damned.\n<em>Can you hear the symphony of suffering?<\/em><br \/>\nThe gasping, the choking, the begging for mercy.<br \/>\nWe are the buried, the forgotten, the restless dead.<br \/>\nAnd next we are dragging you.\n\t<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n<p>The first time I went hunting, I watched as my misplaced shot paralyzed the deer. I think about this often, but never when eating venison.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it drip down your throat, thick and black? We miss the crimson warmth, the coppery tang. We the shadows that block out the moon, a banshee&#8217;s wail on the wind Is it the stench of decay rotting your flesh? We lurk upon the threshold, in fragments. Craving the living, forever rabid Does it consume you, ravenously? These gums have split, to reveal our fangs. They&#8217;d drain a corpse dry, still demanding more. We have died a thousand deaths and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Does It Drip Down Your Throat? By Jacob Lorigan\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/30\/doesitdripdownyourthroat\/#more-1609\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does It Drip Down Your Throat? By Jacob Lorigan\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":0,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guai-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}