{"id":108905,"date":"2022-06-25T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108905"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:45:21","slug":"inspired-by-the-possessed-by-elif-batuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/inspired-by-the-possessed-by-elif-batuman\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by The Possessed by Elif Batuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty I see<br \/>\nspans ugly things<\/p>\n<p>and lies, so many lies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to be observant.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to learn lessons.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to be a role model for people who don&#8217;t wear bows<br \/>\nand have to purge what has\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ossified in the pit of their\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0stomach.<\/p>\n<p>I like a clean house<br \/>\nbut I want to sleep in soiled sheets.<br \/>\nYou wouldn&#8217;t let me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The streets are piled high with trash<br \/>\nand I see a 9-year-olds favorite Barbie,<br \/>\na picture frame that held a wedding photo,<br \/>\na breakfast, lunch and dinner of preservatives.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t love you anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All the preservatives,<br \/>\nall the ugly things that they say<br \/>\nhave saved millions. <!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_220625_124134_756.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty I see spans ugly things and lies, so many lies. I&#8217;m trying to be observant. I&#8217;m trying to learn lessons. I&#8217;m trying to be a role model for people who don&#8217;t wear bows and have to purge what has\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108905","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\/4605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109783,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108905\/revisions\/109783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}