{"id":21729,"date":"2016-08-13T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21729"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:27:54","slug":"7-broken-dreams-non-cliched-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/7-broken-dreams-non-cliched-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"#7 &#8211; Broken Dreams (non-cliched angst)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">The eggs were dry yesterday,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and, each day after I bought them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">It&#8217;s true the refrigerator leaked,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">but I covered them in plastic wrap<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and moved them to the front,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">where the leak was minimal.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">My girlfriend is coming tonight,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and yes, it is to be a special night.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">We will see a play at the Plaza,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">followed by a horse carriage ride,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and then, dinner prepared by me,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">of an omelet exactly to her order.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">She&#8217;s in the living room,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">watching the Summer Olympics.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Its never been her style to watch,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">but she knew I was busy,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">dicing her ham pieces into hearts<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and slicing the peppers into rings<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I assembled the ingredients with care<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">never letting her know of my proposal<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I cracked an egg and another<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">and the sulfuric smell was intolerable.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I knew they would be bad. I knew life sucked.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Shit!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~chowilawu~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eggs were dry yesterday, and, each day after I bought them. It&#8217;s true the refrigerator leaked, but I covered them in plastic wrap and moved them to the front, where the leak was minimal. My girlfriend is coming tonight, and yes, it is to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":806,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[1177,1586,1253,1372,1543],"class_list":["post-21729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-chowilawu","tag-cnada","tag-gislason","tag-native","tag-nikiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729","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\/806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21762,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21729\/revisions\/21762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}