{"id":25525,"date":"2016-08-13T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25525"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:29:21","slug":"poem-14-confusion-hallucinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-14-confusion-hallucinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 14 &#8212; Confusion &amp; Hallucinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you hear that??<br \/>\nThe mailbox was talking,<br \/>\nWhat is going on?<br \/>\nThe gas in my car<br \/>\nGot mad and started walking.<br \/>\nKnock! Knock! I heard at the door,<br \/>\nWhat a sight before fuchsia eyes!<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t take this anymore.<br \/>\nA big black tree smiled wearing breath smelling like thunder,<br \/>\nWho told him where I lived?<br \/>\nAs I scratched my grassy eyes and clinched my purple teeth in wonder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to tolerate this&#8221;,<br \/>\nSaid all the faces on each bill,<br \/>\n&#8220;Stop talking to me&#8221;, I wanted to add,<br \/>\nBut I said nothing, if only looks did kill.<br \/>\n&#8220;Come on and go with me!&#8221;<br \/>\nI exclaimed to the potholes,<br \/>\nHold my shoes until I put my heart back in the rainbow of gold.<br \/>\nThinking about you, my lovely bridge<br \/>\nCauses me weakness and frustration,<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m full of deep confusion,<br \/>\nAnd all these hallucinations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you hear that?? The mailbox was talking, What is going on? The gas in my car Got mad and started walking. Knock! Knock! I heard at the door, What a sight before fuchsia eyes! I can&#8217;t take this anymore. A big black tree smiled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525","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\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25536,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25525\/revisions\/25536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}