I decided to see if I could put both the trapped and locked out…turned out I could:<\/p>\n
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i am a good girl<\/em><\/p>\n blasted bottle said “drink me.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n i am a good girl<\/p>\n i do what i am told<\/p>\n in this world of men<\/p>\n iron<\/p>\n ash<\/p>\n and coal dust so invisible<\/p>\n as to stain your cheeks with inky tears<\/p>\n after birth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n i am a good girl.<\/p>\n i drink when told to drink<\/p>\n i shrink when told to shrink<\/p>\n become invisible<\/p>\n when iron men reduce my dreams to ash when i reach up to<\/p>\n reach out to<\/p>\n find the box is lidded with glass –<\/p>\n the Cheshire cat grinning through the lid,<\/p>\n revealing the colours of its padded feet<\/p>\n to me<\/p>\n from the lid above.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n i am a good girl.<\/p>\n i wait to be invited in –<\/p>\n a vampire<\/p>\n cop or<\/p>\n virus<\/p>\n panting at the door<\/p>\n drooling on the welcome mat<\/p>\n <\/p>\n i am a good girl.<\/p>\n slide me the key under the jamb –<\/p>\n hide it under that sopping mat<\/p>\n so i may come in, too<\/p>\n to join you –<\/p>\n Queen of Hearts.<\/p>\n i see you through that glass lid perched beside ol’ Cheshire again<\/p>\n grinning at me<\/p>\n above me<\/p>\n as i stare into the sloppy welcome mat…<\/p>\n door knob getting farther and farther away from my grasp.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n if i could only crawl under –<\/p>\n get out of this fucking box shrinking around me<\/p>\n like vacuum-sealed bags for storing old pillows –<\/p>\n but no!<\/p>\n i am a good girl –<\/p>\n too big for this place of men<\/p>\n Queens of Hearts wearing crowns of<\/p>\n iron<\/p>\n and ashes…<\/p>\n too small to hold the key<\/p>\n on my own.<\/p>\n (c) r.l.elke<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I decided to see if I could put both the trapped and locked out…turned out I could: i am a good girl blasted bottle said “drink me.” i am a good girl i do what i am told in this world of men…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477","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=50477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50638,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50477\/revisions\/50638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}