{"id":46637,"date":"2019-06-22T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46637"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:38:21","slug":"i-am-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-am-words\/","title":{"rendered":"I am, Words     [1 &#8211; #iam]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to write essays, stories, the words flowing out onto the page<br \/>\nbut you&#8211;<br \/>\nyou have messed me up<br \/>\nyou have taken me down and now<br \/>\nI am liquid<br \/>\nmy words fall out without structure<br \/>\nwilly nilly<\/p>\n<p>I am trailing word droppings at work<br \/>\nI am leaving words in the cart at the grocery<br \/>\nI am sorry for the puddle of words that fell out on to the broccoli<br \/>\nI am sure you didn\u2019t expect to be picking consonants out of your casserole.<\/p>\n<p>Even the librarian, who I thought would have been used to words, words, words everywhere<br \/>\nsighed as they fell out of my hair and came out of my pockets in the stacks.<br \/>\nMaybe because they&#8217;re not good words<br \/>\nI am a bad poet, a bad writer<br \/>\n(see, here is proof)<\/p>\n<p>but you did this to me<br \/>\nyou opened this fountain<br \/>\nthat won&#8217;t stop flowing<br \/>\nlike tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to write essays, stories, the words flowing out onto the page but you&#8211; you have messed me up you have taken me down and now I am liquid my words fall out without structure willy nilly I am trailing word droppings at work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46637","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\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47394,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46637\/revisions\/47394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}