{"id":21532,"date":"2016-08-13T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:59:19","slug":"the-buffoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-buffoon\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE BUFFOON<\/p>\n<p>Every time I see him, I writhe from within.<\/p>\n<p>More so, than the chill I get from disappearing\u00a0glaciers.<\/p>\n<p>He is a no man, a figment of his own manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>A wart of a human being that entangles his prey\u00a0in a twitter\u00a0of lies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must admit, first I laugh at his preposterous ideas.<\/p>\n<p>But then, heat creeps into my capillaries and I&#8217;m on fire!<\/p>\n<p>I aim my thumb and index finger at the over sized screen.<\/p>\n<p>I want to blow the damn TV out of the house and into the woods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vile spews from the mouth of the ignorant man that stands before me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wa, wa, wa did I say. I didn&#8217;t say that! The media lies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing riles me more than a liar. Oh yes there is one thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>a bad liar. The kind that weaves lies, like a\u00a0spinner on a wheel,<\/p>\n<p>who then rips it out, only because someone found his mistake.<\/p>\n<p>A mistake\u00a0that otherwise would unravel after the purchase is made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sense a game is played in the mind of\u00a0a moron who feels he is better,<\/p>\n<p>Better than ANYONE.<\/p>\n<p>Only a fool or delusional chihuahua feels he\u00a0is bigger and smarter\u00a0than the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>What a joke. what a shame when the mind is smaller than the rage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am stuck in my domain without power or resource, so I coil when I hear his name.<\/p>\n<p>I do not mean to offend, nor do I mean to pretend that I have a solution.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m frightened by thoughts of retribution.<\/p>\n<p>I crave peaceful revolution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BUFFOON Every time I see him, I writhe from within. More so, than the chill I get from disappearing\u00a0glaciers. He is a no man, a figment of his own manipulation. A wart of a human being that entangles his prey\u00a0in a twitter\u00a0of lies. &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532","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\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26095,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions\/26095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}