{"id":112238,"date":"2022-06-25T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112238"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:38:41","slug":"ode-to-the-living-dead-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ode-to-the-living-dead-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Living Dead Hour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to the Living Dead (Valkyrie Kerry)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dyer-Bolique, as dire as you are,<br \/>\nCursed streets offer something far worse,<br \/>\nVacant minds, absorbing smoked plants and wine,<br \/>\nMenacing, intolerant curse.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You heed my meaning, agree with my terms,<br \/>\nPrepare me to fight, in the bleakest night,<br \/>\nLoad my limb\u2019s weapon, to crush the dirt worms,<br \/>\nLash and Winchester to take flight.<\/p>\n<p>To town we travel, after dark rabble,<br \/>\nDissident ills, unified mind,<br \/>\nPacks travel shady, lonely back allies,<br \/>\nWe circle prey, stalking behind.<\/p>\n<p>Once entrenched in their hole with no way out,<br \/>\nThe undead-alive wrestle and shout,<br \/>\nNo one comes near, caught in their fear,<br \/>\nOffering us a safe route.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dyer-Bolique, as dire as you are,<br \/>\nPut the fear of hell in these stiffs,<br \/>\nVacant souls we must cleanse in fire,<br \/>\nBefore they have time to put out their spliffs.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to the Living Dead (Valkyrie Kerry) \u2018Dyer-Bolique, as dire as you are, Cursed streets offer something far worse, Vacant minds, absorbing smoked plants and wine, Menacing, intolerant curse.\u2019 You heed my meaning, agree with my terms, Prepare me to fight, in the bleakest night,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112238","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\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112244,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112238\/revisions\/112244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}