{"id":139175,"date":"2023-09-03T00:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139175"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:19:24","slug":"hour-16-i-paid-22-for-a-burger-or-in-which-i-guess-i-am-not-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-16-i-paid-22-for-a-burger-or-in-which-i-guess-i-am-not-attractive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 16 &#8211; I Paid $22 For A Burger Or In Which I Guess I Am Not Attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I Paid $22 For A Burger Or In Which I Guess I Am Not Attractive <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>after L. Hart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is my firm belief<br \/>\nthat if you do not think I am beautiful<br \/>\nyou should not ask me on a date.<\/p>\n<p>Dates are expensive.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are not<br \/>\nGoogly-eye incarnate<br \/>\nwe are wasting our time here.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe that&#8217;s a lie.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least,<br \/>\nif you are not taken by me<br \/>\ndo not let me be the person you call.<\/p>\n<p>Because you planned this.<\/p>\n<p>This over-priced dinner date for two\u2013<br \/>\nthat I am collapsing into,<br \/>\nmutating into a fawn once more.<\/p>\n<p>Stuck, or sticking in the molasses of your scorn.<\/p>\n<p>As you smile,<br \/>\nsay, \u201cI\u2019ve given up on beautiful women,\u201d<br \/>\nsay, \u201cI\u2019m so glad to be here with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A clear line dividing.<\/p>\n<p>As you smile,<br \/>\nsay, \u201cpretty women can\u2019t hold a conversation,\u201d<br \/>\nsay, \u201csee how easy it is to talk to one another?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tell you I am not a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, it changes nothing.<br \/>\nYou spin the word \u201cstunning\u201d in your mouth<br \/>\nand launch it at anything but me.<\/p>\n<p>Reinforcing looks were the baseline you were evaluating.<\/p>\n<p>Thank me for being<br \/>\nmore \u201cinteresting\u201d than anything else<br \/>\nand look at the women around the room.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for the next who, with hope, will not respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Paid $22 For A Burger Or In Which I Guess I Am Not Attractive after L. Hart It is my firm belief that if you do not think I am beautiful you should not ask me on a date. Dates are expensive. And if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139185,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175\/revisions\/139185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}