{"id":118857,"date":"2022-06-26T01:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118857"},"modified":"2022-07-19T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T03:42:25","slug":"hour-sixteen-the-world-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-sixteen-the-world-grinds-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Grinds On (Hour 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world would grind on<br \/>\nwhen you lose your breath;<br \/>\nwhen, like a log, what&#8217;s left<br \/>\nof you is heaved into the earth,<br \/>\nshovelfuls of dirt hitting<br \/>\nyour resting box hewn from<br \/>\nany tree of the carpenter&#8217;s fancy &#8211;<br \/>\n<em>udara<\/em>, melina, iroko, oak, mahogany &#8211;<br \/>\nwho really cares?<\/p>\n<p>Mourners would wipe dry eyes<br \/>\nAnd get on a feasting match &#8211;<br \/>\n<em>God bless the dead<br \/>\nwhose death<br \/>\nhas brought us this bread.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Family would war to death<br \/>\nif you were of mega means;<br \/>\nsome tear to shreds<br \/>\neven for meagre means.<\/p>\n<p>A memorial a year if they cohere,<br \/>\nand, maybe, a reluctant visit to your<br \/>\nresting place, with paparazzi in tow,<br \/>\njust for the show.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in time, everyone forgets<br \/>\neven your fondest jokes.<br \/>\nNow you&#8217;re but a distant<br \/>\nthought, a faint memory,<br \/>\nfor even those who remember<br \/>\nnear their inevitable end.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not for want of love<br \/>\nor empathy; life burdens each<br \/>\nwith not just a cross that even<br \/>\nthe living forget the living<br \/>\nin this forsaken hellhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world would grind on when you lose your breath; when, like a log, what&#8217;s left of you is heaved into the earth, shovelfuls of dirt hitting your resting box hewn from any tree of the carpenter&#8217;s fancy &#8211; udara, melina, iroko, oak, mahogany &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118857","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\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118857\/revisions\/125041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}