{"id":138826,"date":"2023-09-02T23:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138826"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:37:34","slug":"cyborg-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/cyborg-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong>A conversation with Cyborg cashier working in Taco Bell .<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I pull the night by\u00a0 its fore limb into the driveway<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">And listen as the sound of my car slowly<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fades into oblivion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hesitate in all the steps I take into Taco Bell;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body is an aching that must not die yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body is an aching with insatiable cravings<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For crunch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The cashier is a purple cyborg<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eye and codes intact\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I feel a certain breeze of loneliness<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I ask\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How many aches would it take the body to survive<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To become indestructible <\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She, in her loyalty to her code, ignores my concerns and displays<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A hologram of their menu\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m too liquid to crave a Baja blast<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I ask again\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>How long would it take the world to bed ros\u00e9s again?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cyborg, in her loyalty towards her programs refresh the menu for something<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other than a crunchy meal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation with Cyborg cashier working in Taco Bell . \u00a0 I pull the night by\u00a0 its fore limb into the driveway And listen as the sound of my car slowly Fades into oblivion. I hesitate in all the steps I take into Taco Bell;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138826","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\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138831,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138826\/revisions\/138831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}