I thought Eliot wrote,
\n“Not with a bang but with a whimper.”
\nI thought Stipe sang,
\n“And I feel fine.”
\nSo why do I hear and feel
\nthese gunshots?<\/p>\n
I remember the beach being wider than this <\/em>I guess if there are enough bangs I thought Eliot wrote, “Not with a bang but with a whimper.” I thought Stipe sang, “And I feel fine.” So why do I hear and feel these gunshots? I remember the beach being wider than this bang! I never see fireflies anymore bang! The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52972,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52932\/revisions\/52972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbang!<\/em>
\nI never see fireflies anymore
\nbang!<\/em>
\nThe weather can’t seem to decide what season it is
\nbang!<\/em>
\nOne hurricane after the next
\nbang!<\/em>
\nOne earthquake after the –
\nbang!<\/em>
\nOne flood after –
\nbang!<\/em>
\nOne blizzard –
\nbang!<\/p>\n
\nall crammed together
\nwith hands over our ears
\nit sounds like a whimper.
\nI feel afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"