{"id":130952,"date":"2023-09-02T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130952"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:34:17","slug":"poem-5-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/poem-5-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perfectly Manicured nails<\/span><\/p>\n

Swipe a path on the dash<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In her shitty green\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Weather-worn\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

stick shift\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She taught herself<\/span><\/p>\n

to drive<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Collecting dust that she discards<\/span><\/p>\n

Neatly and primly<\/span><\/p>\n

With a golden smile<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018cause she cares for all things<\/span><\/p>\n

That are hers<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We were each other\u2019s–<\/span><\/p>\n

Always<\/span><\/p>\n

And in three years time<\/span><\/p>\n

Our childhood\u2019s were renewed<\/span><\/p>\n

In familiar spaces and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

aged faces<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I was sad to let you go<\/span><\/p>\n

She who completes me like<\/span><\/p>\n

A broken note made steady<\/span><\/p>\n

I sit a meditate on the feeling<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Our laughter echoing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

all the way down the I-95<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In her shitty green\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Weather-worn\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

stick shift\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She taught herself<\/span><\/p>\n

to drive<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfectly Manicured nails Swipe a path on the dash   In her shitty green\u00a0 Weather-worn\u00a0 stick shift\u00a0 She taught herself to drive   Collecting dust that she discards Neatly and primly With a golden smile \u2018cause she cares for all things That are hers  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130952","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\/5300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130992,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130952\/revisions\/130992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}