miles to go<\/b><\/p>\n
(after Robert Frost)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n blood flows\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hot and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ragged<\/span><\/p>\n a collective thrum.<\/span><\/p>\n walls<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0surround\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n they have chosen to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let our cries be drown out by\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n their preachers<\/span><\/p>\n whose shouts of condemnation do \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 nothing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0but spur us\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n further on<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n this will not be the culmination of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0feet marching on\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 cobblestone streets,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0pepper sprayed petals in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 hair,<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0combat boots crunch over \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 broken\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 glass,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n and miles to go before we sleep,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n and miles to go before I sleep.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" miles to go (after Robert Frost) blood flows\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hot and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ragged a collective thrum. walls \u00a0surround\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0them,\u00a0 they have chosen to\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let our cries be drown out by\u00a0 their preachers whose shouts of condemnation do \u00a0 \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4909,4957,680],"class_list":["post-108207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-2022hour2","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108207","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\/3755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108222,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108207\/revisions\/108222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}