<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I\u2019m coming back and I don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n
Maybe you think you\u2019re giving me a second chance<\/p>\n
telling me I wasn\u2019t in the right frame of mind or<\/p>\n
that the holidays were on and to remember<\/p>\n
how boring that can be for a city as vibrant as you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ve got to say I didn\u2019t like what you had on show back then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was summer, holidays or not, you\u2019re meant to glow with the<\/p>\n vibrancy that you\u2019re known for, but if it was there at all\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n it was hidden behind the endless, on top of each other scrawl\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n of the Untalented who think their mindless tagging is a form of art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong I\u2019ve revelled in what I\u2019ve seen in the past<\/p>\n the juxtaposition of stone, concrete, steel, rust and glass\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n that\u2019s been highlighted with spirited splashes of spray can art\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n but last time all I could see was that they, I can\u2019t utter their name again<\/p>\n had taken over the city claiming they\u2019d been robbed of what was duly theirs<\/p>\n a place in the annals of art history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I said, NO, and strongly rebutted their claim shouting<\/p>\n \u2018Can\u2019t you see you\u2019ve been hijacked by an egotisical!\u2019<\/p>\n I wanted so much for you to rise up and slap them down<\/p>\n to tell\u00a0them to f**k off until they could put some thought<\/p>\n into what\u00a0<\/span>they were spraying but no, you cowered lower than taking<\/p>\n it on the chin and allowed them to think they were powerful.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s me that\u2019s giving you a second chance.<\/p>\n I hope you don\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m coming back and I don\u2019t know why. Maybe you think you\u2019re giving me a second chance telling me I wasn\u2019t in the right frame of mind or that the holidays were on and to remember how boring that can be for a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966","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\/1371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119966\/revisions\/119996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}