CONTENT WARING: mental health, incarceration<\/p>\n
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BUT DON\u2019T CALL IT MASKING TAPE<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n right up front for the brutal truth<\/span><\/p>\n there\u2019s only one difference between prison<\/span><\/p>\n and the psych ward<\/span><\/p>\n and it\u2019s the cafeteria offerings<\/span><\/p>\n the slunking whispers are the same<\/span><\/p>\n the blank bright hallways and gleaming fixtures<\/span><\/p>\n dinginess and long hallway flickering lights<\/span><\/p>\n just enough to gaslight an average man<\/span><\/p>\n so she said there\u2019s a strict no cuddling policy<\/span><\/p>\n and I said honey I get it I\u2019m crazy not stupid<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n here we are for your horrified amusement<\/span><\/p>\n the black-eyed children of the new millennia<\/span><\/p>\n we\u2019ll consume your crime scene tape<\/span><\/p>\n wailing another older kind of siren<\/span><\/p>\n where instead of either soulless cell<\/span><\/p>\n I imagine that brightness is the seaside<\/span><\/p>\n where I\u2019ll wake up next to you<\/span><\/p>\n on another cloud deeper in double digits<\/span><\/p>\n where I want to hear every passing thought<\/span><\/p>\n behind your eyes and your reserving smirk<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n so I pretend with the rain that I\u2019m hearing sand and waves<\/span><\/p>\n imagine you wrap your arms around me and the color returns<\/span><\/p>\n and I\u2019m left with no desire for anything<\/span><\/p>\n except to be here, to just be still, and listen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONTENT WARING: mental health, incarceration BUT DON\u2019T CALL IT MASKING TAPE right up front for the brutal truth there\u2019s only one difference between prison and the psych ward and it\u2019s the cafeteria offerings the slunking whispers are the same the blank bright…<\/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-100440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100440","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=100440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100498,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100440\/revisions\/100498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}