{"id":7018,"date":"2017-02-11T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=7018"},"modified":"2017-02-11T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T13:55:47","slug":"divination-isnt-what-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=7018","title":{"rendered":"Divination Isn&#8217;t What It Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Divination Isn\u2019t What It Was<\/h4>\n<p>The pay-as-you-go syndrome catches up with you.<br \/>\nThis morning all my tags were apathetic or empty.<br \/>\nIt was overcast, impatient and grey.<br \/>\nI went out amongst leaf litter that seemed glum.<br \/>\nI looked into clouds for divination.<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t construe their puffy encryptions.<br \/>\nNewsprint melted into the driveway.<br \/>\nThere were grubs everywhere, gnawing<br \/>\nthe chlorophyll I\u2019ve paid for.<br \/>\nThe fibre\u2019s collapsing, the service charter is a joke.<br \/>\nI feel like shouting a few terms of resentment<br \/>\nif I can find the bile that\u2019ll do it.<br \/>\nI suspect it\u2019s a communication strategy that won\u2019t spawn<br \/>\naffirmative values. O poor me, etcetera, etcetera.<br \/>\nWhere is the sun, is it anxious?<br \/>\nIs the solar system being hacked?<br \/>\nIs it a kind of hyper-fib, a faction of the moment?<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s new pussycat, no, really.<br \/>\nI just don\u2019t know what to do with myself<br \/>\nand it smells like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu or history<br \/>\nanother denial of service, or the vacuity<br \/>\nof being stalked by another dissatisfied client<br \/>\nunder leaden skies. What kind of<br \/>\nperformance management system is that?<br \/>\nNow the magpie spies me<br \/>\nand I become another timorous animal<br \/>\nin the audacious, taunting air.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divination Isn\u2019t What It Was The pay-as-you-go syndrome catches up with you. This morning all my tags were apathetic or empty. It was overcast, impatient and grey. I went out amongst leaf litter that seemed glum. I looked into clouds for divination. I couldn\u2019t construe their puffy encryptions. Newsprint melted into the driveway. 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