{"id":137493,"date":"2023-09-02T21:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137493"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:22:06","slug":"little-poetry-projects-uneven-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/little-poetry-projects-uneven-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Poetry Projects, Uneven Debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our crooked mail was bleeding surreptitiously<br \/>\nthrough its envelope.<br \/>\nUpon opening &#8211; gingerly &#8211; the crusted folds<br \/>\n(obviously, the delivery had reinvigorated<br \/>\nthe wound), we sighed with relief<br \/>\neven as the paper therein snarled<br \/>\nits intent to drain us of<br \/>\nour combined incomes with bold-formatted and triple-underlined<br \/>\nclaims that sounded like they were generated by<br \/>\na program, not written by a cogent and reasonable<br \/>\nhuman being.<\/p>\n<p>Foregone conclusions in mail extortion<br \/>\nbeing one of the signifiers in the<br \/>\nfall of the Roman Empire, we knew,<br \/>\nin a dead second it was either us or it.<br \/>\nWordlessly, Ron and I danced the mail<br \/>\nto the sink, cornering it with the<br \/>\nmercy it had shown us and we drowned it<br \/>\nto a pulp, then finished it off<br \/>\nwith the garbage disposal.<\/p>\n<p>Just to be precariously indulgent,<br \/>\nI bleach bombed the drain and plugged it<br \/>\nwith the stopper. Nothing must return<br \/>\nto infect our other correspondence.<br \/>\nWe count our guest appearances<br \/>\nin civil dinners, and consider ourselves<br \/>\npen pals with battle scars.<\/p>\n<p>We are victors.<br \/>\nWe demolish the undead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our crooked mail was bleeding surreptitiously through its envelope. Upon opening &#8211; gingerly &#8211; the crusted folds (obviously, the delivery had reinvigorated the wound), we sighed with relief even as the paper therein snarled its intent to drain us of our combined incomes with bold-formatted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137493","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143587,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137493\/revisions\/143587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}