{"id":26666,"date":"2016-08-14T01:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26666"},"modified":"2016-08-14T01:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:43:45","slug":"17-evelyn-first-broken-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/17-evelyn-first-broken-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"#17 &#8211; Evelyn (First Broken Heart)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Barricuda cruising<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: inherit;line-height: 1.5\">on the street<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Radio blaring<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Motown beat<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Streetlights flashing<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">got the speed<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">She&#8217;s beside me<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">smoking weed<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Dancing wiggly<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">on the bucket<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Slow down baby<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;font-family: inherit;line-height: 1.5\">I say fuck it<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Wheeling hungry<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">asphalt road<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Sipping whiskey<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">taste the toad<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Back seat spanky<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">mutual fun<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Late night craving<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">we meet the sun<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Took her home<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">called a creep<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Kissed her softly<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">home to sleep<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Two days later<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">she was dead<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Took some pills<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">fucked her head<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Took some more<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">stopped her breath<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">They never called<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">about her death<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">why&#8217;d she do it<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">i often asked<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">i loved her deeply<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">now it&#8217;s past<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">my heart was broken<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">not to mend<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">I never knew<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">a life to end<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Was it my fault<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">was it hers<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">or, her parents<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">was it yours<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Does it matter<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">life went on<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Does it matter<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">now she&#8217;s gone<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barricuda cruising on the street Radio blaring Motown beat Streetlights flashing got the speed She&#8217;s beside me smoking weed Dancing wiggly on the bucket Slow down baby I say fuck it Wheeling hungry asphalt road Sipping whiskey taste the toad Back seat spanky mutual fun&#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":[1179,1177,1253,1372,1543],"class_list":["post-26666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-canada","tag-chowilawu","tag-gislason","tag-native","tag-nikiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26666","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=26666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26680,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26666\/revisions\/26680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}