{"id":131140,"date":"2023-09-02T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131140"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:19:01","slug":"hour-5-clue-but-its-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-5-clue-but-its-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5: Clue but it’s Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

You tell me my aspiration is dead so I search for the murderer:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>supervisor<\/strong> at the <\/span>office Christmas party<\/strong> with the <\/span>sixth whiskey glass<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>employee of the month<\/strong> on the <\/span>commuter train<\/strong> with the<\/span> third rail <\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>CEO<\/strong> in the <\/span>hospice center <\/strong>with the <\/span>ringing cellphone<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>homeless woman<\/strong> at the <\/span>shelter desk<\/strong> with the <\/span>minimum wage<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>entrepreneur<\/strong> at the<\/span> free pizza hour<\/strong> with the<\/span> raise denial<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>retiree <\/strong>in the<\/span> job center <\/strong>with the<\/span> student loan debt\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>doctor <\/strong>in the <\/span>recovery room<\/strong> with the <\/span>second chance<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>labor organizer<\/strong> outside the <\/span>corporate office<\/strong> with the <\/span>megaphone<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>artist<\/strong> at the <\/span>bank <\/strong>with the <\/span>check from the first painting<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>small business owner<\/strong> at the<\/span> meeting table<\/strong> with the <\/span>co-op agreement\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>neighbors<\/strong> in the <\/span>community garden<\/strong> with the <\/span>dinner harvest for 20<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was the <\/span>children<\/strong> at the <\/span>full dinner table<\/strong> with the <\/span>present parents\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It was the<\/span> murderer <\/strong>in the<\/span> courtroom <\/strong>with the <\/span>gavel\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cleared of all charges\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because we need not wait til death\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to rest\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You tell me my aspiration is dead so I search for the murderer:\u00a0   It was the supervisor at the office Christmas party with the sixth whiskey glass\u00a0 \u00a0 It was the employee of the month on the commuter train with the third rail \u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131140","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\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131680,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131140\/revisions\/131680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}