{"id":137568,"date":"2023-09-02T21:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137568"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:28:43","slug":"lightbulb-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lightbulb-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightbulb (Hour 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightbulb<\/p>\n<p>Ideas flash<\/p>\n<p>I hear the beat of the streat underground like a beet<\/p>\n<p>The tremor of bass beneath my feet<\/p>\n<p>I carry the jacket of jackin and packin<\/p>\n<p>shelltoes, cellphones, elcos, elbows, hellnos melrose, eggrolls deathrows.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling in buckets a box full of fuckets<\/p>\n<p>We couldnt play trumpets<\/p>\n<p>And so we play glasspipes.<\/p>\n<p>Melanin cinnamon hooked on the medicine all my bucks go to Exxon and Edison.<\/p>\n<p>No carports just cardboards<\/p>\n<p>No artforms, no elk.<\/p>\n<p>No bayou, no no,<\/p>\n<p>We hardly afford milk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Look at what my circumstances built:<\/p>\n<p>A brown man with white guilt.<\/p>\n<p>American dreams fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightbulb Ideas flash I hear the beat of the streat underground like a beet The tremor of bass beneath my feet I carry the jacket of jackin and packin shelltoes, cellphones, elcos, elbows, hellnos melrose, eggrolls deathrows. Rolling in buckets a box full of fuckets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137568","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\/5442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137568\/revisions\/137572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}