{"id":41736,"date":"2017-08-06T05:29:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41736"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:29:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:29:15","slug":"poem-21-dont-go-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-21-dont-go-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 21-Don&#8217;t Go There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word One<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go down there<\/p>\n<p>That place, it&#8217;s evil<\/p>\n<p>Dark, dastardly, deceptive<\/p>\n<p>You will regret it<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason the past is buried there<\/p>\n<p>All that nasty emotion<\/p>\n<p>Those long forgotten memories<\/p>\n<p>They will grab you and pull you back in<\/p>\n<p>Next thing you know<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be smothering tears in your pillow<\/p>\n<p>And plotting revenge like a pro.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t do it<\/p>\n<p>Stay away<\/p>\n<p>Keep that shit bottled up<\/p>\n<p>Keep it under those layers of self pep talks<\/p>\n<p>Keep it hidden beneath the late night ice cream and the<\/p>\n<p>Stress donuts at dawn<\/p>\n<p>It is dark there, dank, dangerous<\/p>\n<p>Grab that shovel<\/p>\n<p>Put more dirt on that casket<\/p>\n<p>Burn a couple pictures<\/p>\n<p>If you keep going there<\/p>\n<p>That dead memory zombie will eat you<\/p>\n<p>Throw your carcass to the next girlfriend to eat<\/p>\n<p>and she doesn&#8217;t need the calories either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word One Don&#8217;t go down there That place, it&#8217;s evil Dark, dastardly, deceptive You will regret it There is a reason the past is buried there All that nasty emotion Those long forgotten memories They will grab you and pull you back in Next thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41736","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41930,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41736\/revisions\/41930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}