{"id":139695,"date":"2023-09-03T01:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139695"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:46:17","slug":"16-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/16-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"16 candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not poem.<\/p>\n<p>That is to say,<\/p>\n<p>I am not a poem today.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t rhyme all the time<\/p>\n<p>But I rhyme when I rhyme<\/p>\n<p>So the times when I rhyme<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t time I just rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a poem,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sign.<\/p>\n<p>Something you<\/p>\n<p>were meant to find.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Its like dick to your mind,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Well, . . . Like a p***y to mine.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>This poem does not identify as poem,<\/p>\n<p>Or prose, or any type of poetic mumbo jumbo.<\/p>\n<p>It maintains and requires no pronouns at this time.<\/p>\n<p>It chooses to identify as JULIAN the INKED.<\/p>\n<p>This article of writing has no form, it does not care to be read but it was maid . . .\u00a0 <em><strong>E <\/strong><\/em>. . . made\u00a0 to inform.<\/p>\n<p>This is too near to be clear and too far from the norm.<\/p>\n<p>A shit storm.<\/p>\n<p>As they say in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>What industry?<\/p>\n<p>That<\/p>\n<p>Is the mistery.<\/p>\n<p>Of Misery<\/p>\n<p>Pissery.<\/p>\n<p>I am no poem.<\/p>\n<p>I am not even poetic or rhythmic,<\/p>\n<p>I am horrific idle jiverish<\/p>\n<p>The gift exchange that&#8217;s re exchanged<\/p>\n<p>For Xmas, Hanakka<\/p>\n<p>In<\/p>\n<p>Santa<\/p>\n<p>Monica.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m serious, don&#8217;t even THink of thinking of mE As a poem.<\/p>\n<p>Stop trying to find my flaws or my form.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;m not here to perform or inform.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to belong<\/p>\n<p>Not to<\/p>\n<p>be<\/p>\n<p>Long.<\/p>\n<p>16 strong.<\/p>\n<p>This is for<\/p>\n<p>The Poeticly<\/p>\n<p>Mentally spiritually Strong.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on keeping on.<\/p>\n<p>You know how you know when you&#8217;re doing great!?<\/p>\n<p>When you get 16 candles on your g*dd*m cake!<\/p>\n<p>This is no poem.<\/p>\n<p>This is a congratulatory note.<\/p>\n<p>For being the 16th poem that you wrote.<\/p>\n<p>(Today, In 16 hours, beast mode).<\/p>\n<p>To the few, the proud, the crazy crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Salute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not poem. That is to say, I am not a poem today. I don&#8217;t rhyme all the time But I rhyme when I rhyme So the times when I rhyme I don&#8217;t time I just rhyme. This is not a poem, It&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[6283],"class_list":["post-139695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023-poetry-marathon-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139695","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=139695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139907,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139695\/revisions\/139907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}