{"id":111466,"date":"2022-06-25T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111466"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:45:21","slug":"hour-6-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-6-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dog&#8217;s make the world a better place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Give me a dog, let it lick<br \/>\nthe serotonin back into my nervous<br \/>\nsystem \u2013 who called it the nervous<br \/>\nsystem anyway, as if any part of the body<br \/>\nwants to be the self-fulfilling prophecy<br \/>\nof a breakdown planted in its origin.<\/p>\n<p>I have always wondered<br \/>\nhow I would die. Like, overthought<br \/>\nit a hundred times, played it<br \/>\non a loop so that every time I see myself<br \/>\ncrossing the street I see me<br \/>\ngetting hit on by a car.<br \/>\nOnly the car did not like me, it hated me<br \/>\nfor getting its bumper blemished.<\/p>\n<p>Or when I walk down the stairs, I will see me<br \/>\ntripping and falling down.<br \/>\nI can already imagine the way my bones<br \/>\nwill protrude my thick flesh vessel,<br \/>\nthe dopamine-releasing adrenaline that will not be working<br \/>\nbecause hello, worst-case scenario doomsayer over here!<br \/>\nSo yes, I will feel the pain.<br \/>\nAnd yes, it will feel like I was born three months early<br \/>\nand don\u2019t know how to breathe yet.<\/p>\n<p>So get me a dog, a fluffy puppy preferably,<br \/>\nand let it make me drown in oxytocin.<br \/>\nI will overdose on oxy if it makes me even the slightest degree<br \/>\nhappier.<br \/>\nMake me believe my entire existence is not<br \/>\nwhat I thought it was, a miserable dark hole.<br \/>\nMy birthday the devil\u2019s holiday.<br \/>\nSo let the dog\u2019s birthday fall on this same satanic celebration,<br \/>\nwhere pigs are slaughtered just for the fun of it<br \/>\nand their organs are handed out as free-for-all gifts,<br \/>\nand then maybe,<br \/>\nmaybe, it\u2019ll turn angelic.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, I can call my dog a saint<br \/>\nfor teaching me that life can be precious<br \/>\nwhen you give it the meaning<br \/>\nwhere there used to be a black hole.<br \/>\nHow it would be so dense even light got sucked in,<br \/>\nbut now the world is pulsing<br \/>\nand radiating like a PET-scan<br \/>\nof a cancerous child.<br \/>\nBecause yes, the world is fucked up.<br \/>\nBut yes, dogs make it better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog&#8217;s make the world a better place Give me a dog, let it lick the serotonin back into my nervous system \u2013 who called it the nervous system anyway, as if any part of the body wants to be the self-fulfilling prophecy of a breakdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5105,2265,2274],"class_list":["post-111466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022hour6","tag-hour6","tag-hoursix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111466","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\/2465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111479,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111466\/revisions\/111479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}