{"id":101265,"date":"2021-06-27T05:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101265"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:09:48","slug":"punch-pause-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/punch-pause-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch\/Pause No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your truth is<\/p>\n<p>at the end of your fist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I close my eyes<\/p>\n<p>and take it on the chin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I swallow a tooth<\/p>\n<p>and lick the blood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My truth is<\/p>\n<p>at the end of my swing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you take it in the skull<\/p>\n<p>and see the blood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You choke on the truth<\/p>\n<p>with your palms open<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pause<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is just about the light<\/p>\n<p>and the warmth it gives<\/p>\n<p>This is the day I will embrace<\/p>\n<p>and walk to it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the day it will be okay<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Philip V. Coombs 5-6pm<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your truth is at the end of your fist &nbsp; I close my eyes and take it on the chin &nbsp; I swallow a tooth and lick the blood &nbsp; My truth is at the end of my swing &nbsp; you take it in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101265","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\/1840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101402,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101265\/revisions\/101402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}