the hope trap<\/b><\/p>\n
1. 2. 3. the hope trap 1. I hope I\u2019m smart enough That next year I remember Nay, I decide not to sign up For another poeting marathon I\u2019m getting waaay too old for this claptrap\u00a0 2. Except of course I won\u2019t I\u2019ll be here again with bells…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[5772,6407],"class_list":["post-143599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-agarethpoem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143599","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143624,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143599\/revisions\/143624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI hope I\u2019m smart enough
\n<\/span>That next year I remember
\n<\/span>Nay, I decide<\/b> not to sign up
\nFor another poeting marathon
\nI\u2019m getting waaay too old for this claptrap\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nExcept of course I won\u2019t
\n<\/span>I\u2019ll be here again with bells
\nRevelling in the subliminal
\n<\/span>Fugue state at the end of a day
\nBuilt on but a few scattered 12 minute naps<\/p>\n
\nBecause the beauty of Marathon:
\nPoet-style is the hope that in
\nThis heteroclitic haze of exhaustion
\nGold is struck & I just step out
\n<\/span>The way, let the shine glow : then \u2014 snap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"