{"id":143968,"date":"2023-09-03T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143968"},"modified":"2023-09-03T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:26:11","slug":"marriage-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/marriage-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage? Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He is not a man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don&#8217;t like adding<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0a possessive pronoun to an ex-person\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">who held my life in prison<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I broke free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I abhor any part of my history<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0That\u2019s connected to him<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hell and the heathen of his shadows<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I cringe when I have to add \u2018my\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To any part of speech that<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0contains the traces of his<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dark dark fingerprints<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Even in disgust,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I hate addressing<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the ex-person\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with a possessive pronoun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Something of mine<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is so intimate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0that I want none of his claws<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to find it again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His very name\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">can sully \u2018my-ness\u2019 of me<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I broke free\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of the prison he held of my life<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why then,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should I attach a possessive pronoun<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to that unknown<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0unwanted X in my life?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is not a man.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like adding \u00a0a possessive pronoun to an ex-person\u00a0 who held my life in prison \u00a0I broke free.\u00a0 And I abhor any part of my history \u00a0That\u2019s connected to him The hell and the heathen of his shadows &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143968","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\/5192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144038,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143968\/revisions\/144038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}