{"id":107027,"date":"2022-06-25T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107027"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:19:47","slug":"hour-1-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-1-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 &#8211; Your hate is our greatest weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot drown a fish.<\/p>\n<p>Barrel by barrel<br \/>\nYou fill their tank<br \/>\nBut still, they swim<\/p>\n<p>Because you cannot drown a fish.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I tell myself<br \/>\nAs my lungs fill with<br \/>\nthe salty flavor of grief<\/p>\n<p>Your gavel may crash,<br \/>\ntearing my skin with<br \/>\nwaves that have teeth<\/p>\n<p>But you cannot drown a fish.<\/p>\n<p>The sound of bullet holes<br \/>\nripping through ebony futures<br \/>\npulls me deeper beneath the swell<\/p>\n<p>And my legs are sore<br \/>\nfrom jumping off boats of those<br \/>\nwho choose platitudes over protests<\/p>\n<p>But you cannot drown a fish.<\/p>\n<p>I laugh when I see the wet<br \/>\nsignatures sign hate<br \/>\ninto law because I know<\/p>\n<p>You think tears can choke us<br \/>\nThat rising tides will swallow<br \/>\nour growing resistance<\/p>\n<p>But you cannot drown a fish.<\/p>\n<p>So keep filling our tank<br \/>\nby the barrel and watch<br \/>\nas we rise with the swell<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t be surprised<br \/>\nThat our waves<br \/>\nhave teeth too<\/p>\n<p>Because you cannot drown a fish<br \/>\nBut you can drown a pig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You cannot drown a fish. Barrel by barrel You fill their tank But still, they swim Because you cannot drown a fish. This is what I tell myself As my lungs fill with the salty flavor of grief Your gavel may crash, tearing my skin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107027","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\/4030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107199,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107027\/revisions\/107199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}