{"id":136850,"date":"2023-09-02T20:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136850"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:57:10","slug":"in-my-purple-bag-hour-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/in-my-purple-bag-hour-11\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Purple Bag    hour 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In My Purple Bag<\/p>\n<p>A double-zip wallet in plum perfect<br \/>\na lilac credit card case<br \/>\nthat actually holds gift cards<br \/>\n4 purple EnerGel pens with aubergine ink<br \/>\none Sharpie marker in orchid<br \/>\none in magenta<br \/>\n2 ballpoint pens I hate but keep just in case<br \/>\na red beaded ladybug case<br \/>\nthat holds my amethyst rosary beads<br \/>\na small purple journal with a dog asking<br \/>\nIs it time to play? How about now?<br \/>\nan amethyst carbuncle with a pewter angel<br \/>\na house key with a purple plastic sleeve<br \/>\nmy truck key big and black and lost<br \/>\nto the abyss of stuff<br \/>\none pack of tissues with lavender irises on it<br \/>\n&#8230; why is my bag so heavy&#8230;<br \/>\na clear plastic glass case<br \/>\nwith my purple marbled reading glasses<br \/>\nwrapped in a wisteria cleaning cloth<br \/>\na fabric pandemic mask that says Poet At Work<br \/>\nan old Home Depot receipt I wrote a few lines<br \/>\nof a new poem on but can\u2019t read it<br \/>\ncan\u2019t throw it out<br \/>\na cluster of safety pins pinned together<br \/>\nseveral vinyl-coated paper clips in<br \/>\nvarying shades of purple<br \/>\nband-aids, purple \u2013 where did I get those?<br \/>\nmy cell phone in the military-grade<br \/>\ndark purple metal case&#8230; it weighs a ton<br \/>\nDogSpeak, my purple-cover poetry book<br \/>\nfrom last year\u2019s 24-hour marathon because<br \/>\nyou never know when you\u2019ll be called on &#8212;<br \/>\ndrug store \/ doctor\u2019s office \/ laundromat<br \/>\nto read a poem or two<br \/>\na pack of grape gum<br \/>\n&#8230; oh, that\u2019s why it\u2019s so heavy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek Hour 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In My Purple Bag A double-zip wallet in plum perfect a lilac credit card case that actually holds gift cards 4 purple EnerGel pens with aubergine ink one Sharpie marker in orchid one in magenta 2 ballpoint pens I hate but keep just in case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136850","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136850\/revisions\/137203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}