{"id":119644,"date":"2022-06-26T03:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119644"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:35:48","slug":"a-long-list-of-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-long-list-of-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A long list of questions&#8221; POEM 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if the sounds you hear are nothing more than echoes?<br \/>\nQuestions asked you refused to address,<br \/>\nbouncing their way back to you.<\/p>\n<p>What if I had been heading South,<br \/>\ninstead of North<br \/>\nthat left, should have been a right<br \/>\npointing me to the Eastern Coast<br \/>\nwhere I would be in the perfect moment<br \/>\nenjoying my love of sun rise beginnings<br \/>\ninstead of the darkness sunset welcomes?<\/p>\n<p>What if he had lived?<br \/>\nwould i just have a live target<br \/>\nor a newly found bond<br \/>\ndigging our way past his embarrassing Lee Jeans<br \/>\nor love of jigsaw puzzles&#8230;<br \/>\nnever made sense to me,<br \/>\nhow he could work hard to piece back together some twisted image<br \/>\nbut no seeming interest in me<br \/>\nthis broken thing<br \/>\nwho would learn to like himself<br \/>\n&#8220;just the way I am&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>whatwouldhappenifitoldproperwritingandpunctuationtofuckrightoff<\/p>\n<p>What if bitcoin bounces back<br \/>\nor cryptos really become this more than metaverse thing?<\/p>\n<p>What will a penny buy today?<br \/>\nAm i the last generation to know the joy<br \/>\nof 100 pieces of candy for a dollar?<br \/>\nWould you buy footies over circus chews<br \/>\na grape head over a red hot?<\/p>\n<p>What if the perceptions we believe,<br \/>\nare the roots of the lies they feed us?<br \/>\nTwisted truths told to toddlers till they test the tales no more!<br \/>\nRealities rightness roughened raucously.<br \/>\nLeft to die while their half truth lives to water away what has always been known&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the sounds you hear are nothing more than echoes? Questions asked you refused to address, bouncing their way back to you. What if I had been heading South, instead of North that left, should have been a right pointing me to the Eastern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644","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\/4456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120421,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644\/revisions\/120421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}