{"id":134571,"date":"2023-09-02T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134571"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:46:28","slug":"hour-8-unzipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-8-unzipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8 – Unzipped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unzipped<\/b><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many hours I\u2019ve spent<\/span><\/p>\n

wishing to shed this body.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just unzip my chest and let my ghost sink to the floor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No suit of skin, no tender veins, no ripening flesh,<\/span><\/p>\n

just a spirit in the shape of a question mark,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

melting, but not going anywhere,<\/span><\/p>\n

as if something can melt back into itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even rain does not have this luxury.<\/span><\/p>\n

With each time it freezes and returns to liquid<\/span><\/p>\n

it is bound to different molecules,<\/span><\/p>\n

follows a different track across the planet<\/span><\/p>\n

And perhaps, with some thought,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

this is what I wanted after all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For my organs to tumble from my body<\/span><\/p>\n

to live different lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For them to come back and whisper to my phantom<\/span><\/p>\n

all the things they\u2019ve done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unzipped   I don\u2019t know how many hours I\u2019ve spent wishing to shed this body. Just unzip my chest and let my ghost sink to the floor.\u00a0 No suit of skin, no tender veins, no ripening flesh, just a spirit in the shape of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134576,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134571\/revisions\/134576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}