{"id":134442,"date":"2023-09-02T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134442"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:37:28","slug":"execution-under-humming-street-light-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/execution-under-humming-street-light-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution under humming street light #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the orange street light<br \/>\nThe stain grew<br \/>\nSpreading out<br \/>\nThe colour of ripe beet<br \/>\nCreating a map on his jacket<br \/>\nHe sank to his knees<br \/>\nGoner, there was no doubt<br \/>\nAnd his voice came in a tremor<br \/>\n&#8216;Hey Jack, that you?<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you dump me, Spanish Jack,<br \/>\nIn any god damned bayou&#8217;<br \/>\nHe sank slowly first to his knees<br \/>\nThen slumped over on one elbow<br \/>\nHe knew he&#8217;d paid his debt<br \/>\nThe humming light overhead flickered<br \/>\nIt was the only eulogy he would get<br \/>\nHis skin the colour of cinnomen<br \/>\nTurned grey as he paid his price<br \/>\nHe had lived his very last day<br \/>\nThrown his very last dice<br \/>\nAnd as the blood stained<br \/>\nThe ground around him<br \/>\nI watched his life die hard<br \/>\n&#8216;Bought a bullet, kicked the bucket,<br \/>\nPlayed his last sharp card&#8217;<br \/>\nI shot again just to be sure<br \/>\nThen removed my elk skin gloves<br \/>\nI&#8217;d taken Jim far and away<br \/>\nFrom everyone he ever loved<br \/>\nI left him in his trunk<br \/>\nIn his own carport that night<br \/>\nAnd drove my cadillac from that place<br \/>\nAnd on into the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the orange street light The stain grew Spreading out The colour of ripe beet Creating a map on his jacket He sank to his knees Goner, there was no doubt And his voice came in a tremor &#8216;Hey Jack, that you? Don&#8217;t you dump&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134456,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134442\/revisions\/134456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}