{"id":46386,"date":"2021-05-26T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=46386"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:11:07","slug":"david-erdos-a-life-in-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/05\/david-erdos-a-life-in-lines.html","title":{"rendered":"David Erdos: &#8216;A Life in Lines&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong><em>Poem 18 from &#8220;Uneasy Verses from Difficult Times<\/em>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIdRog0ABDE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=7&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-left\"><strong>The books have become a worry. \nThey\u2019ll live long beyond my need for them. \nLooking at them this last evening,\nThe pages I chase, filled with fear, \nTheir words redacted by death \nAs colorful lines in time blacken \nAnd I grow blind to the visions \nThat each volume contains<\/strong> <strong>with each year.<\/strong>\n<strong>I would have to do nothing but read, \nWhich I still can't properly do at this moment.\n<em>\u2014 David Erdos<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The books have become a worry.<br \/>\nThey\u2019ll live long beyond my need for them.<br \/>\nLooking at them this last evening,<br \/>\nThe pages I chase, filled with fear,<br \/>\nTheir words redacted by death<br \/>\nAs colorful lines in time blacken<br \/>\nAnd I grow blind to the visions<br \/>\nThat each volume contains with each year.<br \/>\n I would have to do nothing but read<br \/>\nWhich I still can&#8217;t properly do at this moment . . . <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David 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