It was scorching hot<\/p>\n
and it was mid summer<\/p>\n
Mama and Papa had gone to the relatives<\/p>\n
Leaving me under the care of Chris and Kirk.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Kirk was looking at his left<\/p>\n
Not eyeing me<\/p>\n
But he’s eyeing the hawker<\/p>\n
who was selling ice-cream<\/p>\n
at the side road<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I kept pestering him about the graffiti on the wall<\/p>\n
how I would love to add<\/p>\n
green, pink and orange<\/p>\n
on the male Asian Black Bear of his<\/p>\n
He just glared at me<\/p>\n
and sticking his tongue out<\/p>\n
trying to show his annoyance<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I skidded one,two steps<\/p>\n
when Chris called from the front<\/p>\n
“Stop, it. You’re gonna get tired”<\/p>\n
Kirk and I looked at each other<\/p>\n
and giggle were left out<\/p>\n
so abruptly<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Where are you headed”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“So hurried<\/p>\n
so enthusiast”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“I’m going to find the treasure<\/p>\n
no matter what”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“O’ really!”<\/p>\n
Me and Kirk both answered<\/p>\n
almost simultaneously<\/p>\n
Chris just shook his head<\/p>\n
lightly<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
We are almost there<\/p>\n
The pottery plants are starting to show up<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
‘<\/em>20 more steps from here’<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris was thinking of a rag doll to be played with<\/p>\n Kirk was admiring a cold, sweet and alluring milky ice-cream<\/p>\n and I was impatient to seat in the shades, away from the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was scorching hot and it was mid summer Mama and Papa had gone to the relatives Leaving me under the care of Chris and Kirk. Kirk was looking at his left Not eyeing me But he’s eyeing the hawker who was selling ice-cream…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":728,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289","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\/728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27433,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions\/27433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}