The beauty of it is, you can be whatever you want!
\nFor a few hours, you can become a valiant knight
\nNamed Sir Seymour Buttz.
\nFor an evening, you can be a lisping, half-giant wizard.
\nFor a little while, you can play a deadly sniper from a murdered world,
\nsurrounded by a crew of complete screwballs.
\nFor as long as we’re at that table,
\nYou can daydream of magic and adventure and power.<\/p>\n
And we’ll all daydream with you.<\/p>\n
The glory of it is, I can steal from anywhere<\/em>! And for a while, I can tell you those stories, and let you tell them back. We can be each other’s audiences, and advisors, and escapes. The beauty of it is, you can be whatever you want! For a few hours, you can become a valiant knight Named Sir Seymour Buttz. For an evening, you can be a lisping, half-giant wizard. For a little while, you can play a deadly sniper…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53482,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53025\/revisions\/53482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnne Rice’s vampires can fight Le Guin’s Earthsea wizards,
\nThe Greek Gods can be slain by Aztec invaders,
\nMedieval Vader can team up with ersatz Voldemort,
\nI can blend magic, and eras, and races, and big fucking ideas, into a heady melange.
\nAnd Tolkien’s influence? Well, that’s just inevitable.<\/p>\n
\nI can turn my imagination into a playground we share,
\nA stomping ground for your sparkling heroes, your shady mercs,
\nand, sure, your straight-up murderhobos.
\nI can guide you, and point you on the path to heroic adventure,
\ngive you hateful adversaries, unforgettable vistas, lofty goals, and memorable battles.
\nPerhaps I can make you wail at the fall of beloved allies.
\nOr I can just turn you loose and let my world react to your character’s antics.<\/p>\n
\nAnd together, we can make something.
\nTrust me; it’ll be really, really fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"