{"id":2331,"date":"2014-08-23T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2014-08-23T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:20:14","slug":"vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/vii\/","title":{"rendered":"(vii)"},"content":{"rendered":"

of prompts – and other gimmicks:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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dear me,<\/em><\/p>\n

pretentious, pushing phifty;<\/em><\/p>\n

what once was over the hill, now?<\/em><\/p>\n

water under the bridge?<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

if i could, i would<\/p>\n

love you to death.<\/p>\n

because death will part us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and on the burial\u00a0fern-lilies would sway <\/em><\/p>\n

to\u00a0the plonk-plonk of a tinny piano,<\/em><\/p>\n

chinese-lanterns in the waft of the <\/em><\/p>\n

muted yet clear laughter of guests,<\/em><\/p>\n

( she would wear her favourite patent leather boots).<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

like an unwritten elegy on snow,<\/p>\n

branded in vodka, singed for weeks,<\/p>\n

to none can one say no.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

for at the end of that long stiletto-pocked night,<\/em><\/p>\n

the morning would have broken<\/em><\/p>\n

( like the first morning),<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

dear me!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

of prompts – and other gimmicks:   dear me, pretentious, pushing phifty; what once was over the hill, now? water under the bridge?   if i could, i would love you to death. because death will part us.   and on the burial\u00a0fern-lilies would sway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}