{"id":138511,"date":"2023-09-02T23:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138511"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:04:14","slug":"commando-prompt-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/commando-prompt-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Commando (prompt 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>she looks at my motorcycle<br \/>\ndrags her cigarette<br \/>\nand says &#8220;no fucking way&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>it takes some convincing til<br \/>\nshe makes me look away<br \/>\nas she swings her leg over the back<\/p>\n<p>explains, she isn&#8217;t wearing panties today<\/p>\n<p>gasping excitement into my neck<br \/>\nunaware that I&#8217;m getting close to<br \/>\nmy new apartment<\/p>\n<p>she taps my thigh and leans in<br \/>\nsomehow whispers over the engine<br \/>\n&#8220;turn right here&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>devastated, I thought she was a sure thing<\/p>\n<p>she dismounts and peels off her jacket<br \/>\nasks if I&#8217;m good at scaling walls<br \/>\nwhat kind of question is that?<\/p>\n<p>I watch her skillfully climb 8 feet of brick<br \/>\nlike a cat leaping in one fluid motion<br \/>\nunbothered by chunky boots<\/p>\n<p>she is definitely not wearing panties<\/p>\n<p>her friend is out of town<br \/>\nthe summer moon drips sweat<br \/>\nshe sheds the remainder of her clothes<\/p>\n<p>without a word she throws herself<br \/>\ninto this private backyard pool<br \/>\nglittering siren beckons me to follow<\/p>\n<p>she was known for being unexpected and easy to remember<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>she looks at my motorcycle drags her cigarette and says &#8220;no fucking way&#8221; it takes some convincing til she makes me look away as she swings her leg over the back explains, she isn&#8217;t wearing panties today gasping excitement into my neck unaware that I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511","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\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140037,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511\/revisions\/140037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}