{"id":43438,"date":"2017-08-06T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43438"},"modified":"2017-08-06T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:57:42","slug":"poem-10-worker-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/poem-10-worker-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 12 &#8211; Worker Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck, trapped, gasping for breath,<br \/>\nSlave to a system waiting for death,<br \/>\nAlone in this life everyone\u2019s the same,<br \/>\nWasting the years for someone else\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Forty hours a week until you drop dead,<br \/>\nDestroys the imaginations inside your head,<br \/>\nBorn a worker bee forever enslaved,<br \/>\nBarely a tear shed at your grave.<\/p>\n<p>Fall for the line that this is your life,<br \/>\nYou chose the story, you chose the wife,<br \/>\nThe lies that surround us keep us in line,<br \/>\nAn obeying servant by natural design.<\/p>\n<p>But your mind is free, let it wonder at night,<br \/>\nEscape the prison when out goes the light,<br \/>\nPush your head above water or else you\u2019ll drown,<br \/>\nAnd don\u2019t let the bastards grind you down.<\/p>\n<p>Unique word count &#8211; 95<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck, trapped, gasping for breath, Slave to a system waiting for death, Alone in this life everyone\u2019s the same, Wasting the years for someone else\u2019s name. Forty hours a week until you drop dead, Destroys the imaginations inside your head, Born a worker bee forever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438","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\/982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43440,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43438\/revisions\/43440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}