{"id":143206,"date":"2023-09-03T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143206"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:58:33","slug":"hour-24-protect-your-head-a-sestina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-24-protect-your-head-a-sestina\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 24 – protect your head, a sestina"},"content":{"rendered":"

my brain sits in my skull like a scrambled egg<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Idea Center a blue screen, frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>I wish I could get to sleep fast <\/span>
\n<\/span>I definitely rely too much on one or another bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>whether it’s ZzzQuil or a beer, I find myself angry<\/span>
\n<\/span>I almost never stay up till 2:00 a.m. on purpose yet I’m frequently up that late<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>gaze at the leathery shell and hope it’s not too late<\/span>
\n<\/span>the last of these snakes will make it out of her egg<\/span>
\n<\/span>radiating off of her writhing form i feel anger<\/span>
\n<\/span>the dream leaves me frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>i fumble for the bed side water bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>try to tell myself I’m just thisty that’s why I’m gulping so fast<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>I was made to grow up so fast<\/span>
\n<\/span>I feel like I’m experiencing teenagedom late<\/span>
\n<\/span>all of the feelings I tried to bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>now I incubate them, protecting my egg<\/span>
\n<\/span>no longer content to be frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>in time, I’m feeling my feelings and that come with anger<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>its not her fault she was always so angry<\/span>
\n<\/span>my mom I mean, her temper so fast<\/span>
\n<\/span>its impressive that the circumstances didn’t leave her completely frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>no one realizes the dangers until it’s too late<\/span>
\n<\/span>try to prepare for the science project of caging your egg<\/span>
\n<\/span>dig through the trash for toilet paper tubes and a plastic bottle<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>UP, down, I fidget with the bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>how am I both slower and quicker to anger<\/span>
\n<\/span>unmasking is like peeling a very old hard boiled egg<\/span>
\n<\/span>it is the opposite of fast<\/span>
\n<\/span>i just kept telling myself id eat it later<\/span>
\n<\/span>pretty sure the yolks is somehow frozen<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>i stand in the kitchen frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>what was I going to do? Water bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>snooze my alarm every five minutes so in not late<\/span>
\n<\/span>a routine helps me I’m function. My bodyies refusal to form habits easily makes me angry<\/span>
\n<\/span>if I could just stop thinking so fast<\/span>
\n<\/span>i would actually remember to eat my egg<\/span><\/p>\n

I make a sandwich with a fried egg hope my sausage isn’t too burnt or still frozen<\/span>
\n<\/span>i eat up fast draining my coffee bottle<\/span>
\n<\/span>some days I just wake up angry, and it’s much easier to be late<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my brain sits in my skull like a scrambled egg The Idea Center a blue screen, frozen I wish I could get to sleep fast I definitely rely too much on one or another bottle whether it’s ZzzQuil or a beer, I find myself angry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206","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\/5396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143212,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143206\/revisions\/143212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}