{"id":22190,"date":"2016-08-13T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22190"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:54:05","slug":"22190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/22190\/","title":{"rendered":"Represent Who? (A Pantoum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise they&#8217;re all criminals<br \/>\nDid you really think they&#8217;d let someone honest win?<br \/>\nAre you tired of voting for evil as representative?<br \/>\nDoes it reflect the system or the culture?<\/p>\n<p>Did you really think they&#8217;d let someone honest win?<br \/>\nAre you so indoctrinated you don&#8217;t see the ruse?<br \/>\nDoes it reflect the system or the culture?<br \/>\nAny choice you make, the people still suffer<\/p>\n<p>Are you so indoctrinated you don&#8217;t see the ruse?<br \/>\nThe election a selection by and for the elite<br \/>\nAny choice you make, the people still suffer<br \/>\nOur dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes<\/p>\n<p>The election a selection by and for the elite<br \/>\nWhere are the politicians with calluses on their hands?<br \/>\nOur dreams will never fit in their ballot boxes<br \/>\nNo one man or woman can ever represent the masses<\/p>\n<p>Where are the politicians with calluses on their hands?<br \/>\nWhy aren&#8217;t the starving artists represented?<br \/>\nNo one man or woman can ever represent the masses<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s the answer to the question<\/p>\n<p>Why aren&#8217;t the starving artists represented?<br \/>\nGovernment seems to think self-expression is unimportant<br \/>\nI guess that&#8217;s the answer to the question<br \/>\nIf we all just act alike, it&#8217;s easier to control<\/p>\n<p>Government seems to think self-expression is unimportant<br \/>\nThats another way of saying don&#8217;t question what they do<br \/>\nIf we all just act alike, it&#8217;s easier to control<br \/>\nBut if we&#8217;re all acting the same, these politicians represent&#8230;who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise they&#8217;re all criminals Did you really think they&#8217;d let someone honest win? Are you tired of voting for evil as representative? Does it reflect the system or the culture? Did you really think they&#8217;d let someone honest win? Are you so indoctrinated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22614,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22190\/revisions\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}