CONTENT WARNING: S**c!de & mental health<\/p>\n
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SILHOUETTE OF TWO FIGURES IN THE FOG<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n so we take a jumping off point with an image of a bridge<\/span><\/p>\n there was a time when I would have walked off for the familiarity<\/span><\/p>\n that\u2019s some dark humor like dark chocolate to cut another flavor<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n so books are safer than other people but I got tired of being safe<\/span><\/p>\n and if you won\u2019t accept ADHD as my excuse to skim the text<\/span><\/p>\n well OK Boomer I hope the stand-in will serve you for minimum wage<\/span><\/p>\n we\u2019re sick because we\u2019re too smart to be well in a world like this<\/span><\/p>\n in a way I was addicted mostly to danger and to the thought<\/span><\/p>\n that I could die without having to mean it or even feel sure<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I even used to say it wasn\u2019t that I wanted to die per se<\/span><\/p>\n I just wanted to sleep forever away from my own pain<\/span><\/p>\n But when I was on the bridge and I called Ben he brought me home<\/span><\/p>\n and when Ben was done and he called me when he was ready to fall<\/span><\/p>\n it turned out I didn\u2019t know any of the right magic words after all<\/span><\/p>\n because my spells originated only in my mind<\/span><\/p>\n and the construction of love is indifferent to reason<\/span><\/p>\n both of us begging, let me be lonely but not invisible<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n in my dreams the highway loops into a freeform rollercoaster<\/span><\/p>\n where I\u2019m sure now there\u2019s work left to do, at least between the two of us<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0grief is only a vehicle for the ones who survive<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONTENT WARNING: S**c!de & mental health SILHOUETTE OF TWO FIGURES IN THE FOG so we take a jumping off point with an image of a bridge there was a time when I would have walked off for the familiarity that\u2019s some dark humor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100066,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100037\/revisions\/100066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}