{"id":119072,"date":"2022-06-26T01:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119072"},"modified":"2022-06-26T01:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:44:53","slug":"aliens-in-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/aliens-in-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens in Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"
Too much strength for them, those monsters.<\/div>\n
I am too little to be broken into shards.<\/div>\n
I’m in the kitchen, sharpening the knife<\/div>\n
meant for vegetables and fish,<\/div>\n
in preparation for what could be my last attempt<\/div>\n
to stay alive if not properly handled.<\/div>\n
As much as I love hard copies, I won’t hold<\/div>\n
a poetry book. Both hands would be occupied.<\/div>\n
I’ll go for the neck, left hand around the neck,<\/div>\n
then the right holding the knife to the neck<\/div>\n
And before the count of one, one of us must be down.<\/div>\n
Imagine it’s me, I must slit the throat, blood dripping<\/div>\n
down the neck. No! Don’t think of a reversed occurrence.<\/div>\n
Have you seen a mythical monster before?<\/div>\n
In your dream like my first after my mother’s demise?<\/div>\n
Tell me about your long night, of screams and sweat.<\/div>\n
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Too much strength for them, those monsters. I am too little to be broken into shards. I’m in the kitchen, sharpening the knife meant for vegetables and fish, in preparation for what could be my last attempt to stay alive if not properly handled. As…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119072","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119074,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119072\/revisions\/119074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}