{"id":146072,"date":"2024-04-20T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=146072"},"modified":"2024-04-21T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:03:33","slug":"young-ish-women-with-a-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/young-ish-women-with-a-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Young-ish Women with a Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is she referring to us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am. The two of you. West LA. What was the name of that street? I was late, having gone to your offices downtown first. Yes, you, who deleted our text messages. Don&#8217;t you like your jobs?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, shit, she&#8217;s onto us!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am. Have been for a long time. That was your voice &#8220;Jesus&#8221;, wasn&#8217;t it? Yes, it was. I have a good ear. Ladies, I&#8217;m not sure of your end game here, but it&#8217;s backfiring. Patience takes a certain level of maturity, and I think you may be lacking in that department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who the f* does she think she is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Observant, for one. I could ask the same question of you. Who do you think you are, trying to frame me, trying to set me up, trying to cover up a crime on behalf of a politician. They&#8217;re employees, just like you. My taxes pay your salaries and pensions. That&#8217;s who the F* I know I am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you think she wants?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I want? Ask yourself that. I have a full time job, among other obligations, and this has been going on far too long. At this point, I want you two women in jail. That could change if you start behaving properly. You&#8217;re not special, ladies. Straighten up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F* You!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one more thing&#8230; if you think all this harassment, home invasion, gaslighting, and theft is going to push me to recant ANYTHING, think again. I realized something yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yea? What&#8217;s that, b*&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mistakenly thought all my life, so far, since I was about 4 years old&#8230; since the first time I saw my dead mother on television talking to some guy&#8230; I&#8217;ve thought acting, singing, and writing were my true callings. After all, they came so easily to me, which should come as no surprise, given the parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realized yesterday that entertainment is not my true calling. Nor is poetry, though all those things are fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ok, I&#8217;ll bite&#8230; what is your true calling, lady?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is she referring to us?&#8221; Yes, I am. The two of you. West LA. What was the name of that street? I was late, having gone to your offices downtown first. Yes, you, who deleted our text messages. Don&#8217;t you like your jobs? &#8220;Oh, shit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146072","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146075,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146072\/revisions\/146075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}