{"id":127930,"date":"2023-09-02T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127930"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:30:10","slug":"my-mouth-wont-open-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-mouth-wont-open-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MY MOUTH WON&#8217;T OPEN  &#8211; Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Being 44)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I don\u2019t know<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Neither do you nor the dog<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Perhaps the dog knows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You work away<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I spend my days<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">torturing myself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lost in the lack of you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lack of me<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Something is amiss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I feel guilty<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You have acquired<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">another lost soul<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tears stain our time<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m raging inside<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">a slow deep burn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Detached from reality<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I cannot see a future<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I live in fear of loss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I want to smoke again<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I need a prop<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To ground me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I have failed<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My mouth won\u2019t open<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I can\u2019t see behind your eyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Being 44) I don\u2019t know\u00a0 Neither do you nor the dog Perhaps the dog knows &nbsp; You work away I spend my days\u00a0 torturing myself &nbsp; Lost in the lack of you Lack of me Something is amiss &nbsp; I feel guilty You have acquired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[5805,119,191,5806,5804,1653],"class_list":["post-127930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-fail","tag-fear","tag-loss","tag-lost-soul","tag-mouth","tag-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127930","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\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128216,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127930\/revisions\/128216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}