{"id":100223,"date":"2021-06-27T03:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100223"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:13:51","slug":"ribbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ribbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t breath<br \/>\nFor the gauze stuck<br \/>\nin my lungs<br \/>\nInhaling streamers<br \/>\nExhaling tissues<br \/>\nIt comes out of me<br \/>\nand hangs about my head and face<br \/>\nEven if you can&#8217;t see me<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a real miasma<br \/>\nThe coursers of ribbons<br \/>\nStuck around my face<br \/>\nGet stuck in its glue<br \/>\nIt will get stuck to you<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be saying it too<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t breath<br \/>\nFor the gauze stuck<br \/>\nin my lungs<br \/>\nWhat a pretty sight I&#8217;ll make<br \/>\nWhen you cut into my lungs<br \/>\nCaptive to you<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re nobody&#8217;s friend<br \/>\nInvisible invader<br \/>\nSlipping asleep<br \/>\nI hear a far away voice<br \/>\nOver the wheels of the bed I&#8217;m on say<br \/>\nBetween coughing<br \/>\n&#8216;Oh Doctor, Please Save Her&#8217;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lost the will to fight,<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t cough anymore<br \/>\nToo many ribbons have been packed down my throat<br \/>\nWhat I thought was my last night<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the will of medicine to save me<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be on my knees if I was able to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t breath For the gauze stuck in my lungs Inhaling streamers Exhaling tissues It comes out of me and hangs about my head and face Even if you can&#8217;t see me It&#8217;s a real miasma The coursers of ribbons Stuck around my face Get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,4718,4717,4719,52],"class_list":["post-100223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-breathing-problems-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-journal-of-a-plague-year","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100223","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100660,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100223\/revisions\/100660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}