{"id":37467,"date":"2017-08-05T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2017-08-05T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T22:50:29","slug":"peeling-off-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/peeling-off-white\/","title":{"rendered":"peeling off white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>peeling off white<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by the colours on my skin.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you be fooled!<\/p>\n<p>I hide red under rainbows of ink<\/p>\n<p>over white scars<\/p>\n<p>torn by moments of doubt<\/p>\n<p>as to who I am.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>peeling white off red<\/p>\n<p>like paint off rust<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>red off white<\/p>\n<p>off red off<\/p>\n<p>white off red<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like it matters<\/p>\n<p>really.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by the colours on my skin.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you be fooled!<\/p>\n<p>Things always look one way<\/p>\n<p>seem one way<\/p>\n<p>to hide realities in the soul<\/p>\n<p>from a world that would<\/p>\n<p>hate all I am<\/p>\n<p>if I were otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>peeling white off red<\/p>\n<p>like paint off rust<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>my feet hit the red road<\/p>\n<p>with dreams of mountains<\/p>\n<p>drum songs<\/p>\n<p>and starchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All that ink hides all that skin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would it matter if it did?<\/p>\n<p>Would it matter if I was who I am to the world,<\/p>\n<p>where colour matters<\/p>\n<p>when it\u2019s not white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Would it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>R. L. Elke<\/p>\n<p>(c) Aug. 5\/17\u00a0 Prompt 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>peeling off white \u00a0 Don\u2019t be fooled by the colours on my skin. Don\u2019t you be fooled! I hide red under rainbows of ink over white scars torn by moments of doubt as to who I am. &nbsp; peeling white off red like paint off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37489,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions\/37489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}