{"id":140079,"date":"2023-09-03T02:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140079"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:24:23","slug":"hour-18-poem-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-18-poem-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18, Poem 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I teach<\/p>\n<p><em>middle schoolers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who act like<\/p>\n<p><em>pre school kids<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Everyday I hear<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<del>same\u00a0<\/del> complaints<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<em>He took my book!\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>She is using my pencil!\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>He spilled water&#8230;.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>And threw food on my table!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And everyday I tell them<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<del>same\u00a0<\/del> things over again<\/p>\n<p>\u221e\u00a0<em>repeating rules like a \u02dcbroken record\u02dc<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>ask nicely!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Clean up after yourself<\/em><\/li>\n<li>be civil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At least&#8230; Pretend?<\/p>\n<p>And everyday they listen<\/p>\n<p><strong>only to forget.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I teach, but more than that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I meditate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>breathe in\u223c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>breathe out\u223c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><del>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 yeet.<\/del><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I teach middle schoolers Who act like pre school kids Everyday I hear The\u00a0same\u00a0 complaints \u00a0He took my book!\u00a0 She is using my pencil!\u00a0 He spilled water&#8230;.\u00a0 And threw food on my table! And everyday I tell them The\u00a0same\u00a0 things over again \u221e\u00a0repeating rules like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140079","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140173,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140079\/revisions\/140173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}