{"id":54535,"date":"2019-06-22T22:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54535"},"modified":"2019-07-14T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:29:43","slug":"an-ode-to-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/an-ode-to-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(An Erasure based upon A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, Act II Sc. 1, Titania by Sir William Shakespeare)<\/em><br \/>\nForgeries of jealousy, you creeping hags!<br \/>\nHaven\u2019t you done enough to me?<br \/>\nNever, since the day we met in 1962,<br \/>\nnot Christmas, nor Thanksgiving, nor Easter day,<br \/>\nby kitchen sink, or living room couch,<br \/>\nor in the vast spectrum of my life\u2019s moments,<br \/>\nas I danced, and sang, and played a part too well,<br \/>\nbut with thy brawls thou hast disturb\u2019d my life.<br \/>\nTherefore the arts, calling to me in vain,<br \/>\nas in revenge, have suck\u2019d up to your aging client base.<br \/>\nContagious hags! Boasting on the land<br \/>\nyour husbands&#8217; pelting incomes made so proud<br \/>\nthat they did overbear their lives&#8217; expectancy.<br \/>\nAnd me? I stretch\u2019d my yoke in vain,<br \/>\nlosing sweat and tears, too green to see<br \/>\nthe rotted beard of your faux nature;<br \/>\nso fold! Stand empty in your drowned fields,<br \/>\nyou crows! Be fatted with another fuck;<br \/>\nthe nine men\u2019s folio is fill\u2019d up with mud,<br \/>\nth\u2019wives quaintly amazed by your wanton greed.<br \/>\nSo wondrous spiced, thy graceless air is to the imps!<br \/>\nWanton demons wish your winter\u2019d souls<br \/>\nto eat on nights with hymn and carol blest.<br \/>\nMy friend, the moon, the governess of floods,<br \/>\npale in her anger, washes your state\u2019s foul air,<br \/>\nand rots the walls of your vestiges:<br \/>\nwhat a thoroughly perfect disparaging of your lives.<br \/>\nThese seasons, altered by whore-headed men,<br \/>\ndare find a fresh lap for a crimson rose<br \/>\non an old man\u2019s thin and icy wallet.<br \/>\nThou odorous chaplet of discreet wicked buds!<br \/>\nI in mockery, set thee the spring, the summer,<br \/>\nthe childing autumn, angry winter, charged,<br \/>\nyou haunted criminals! And the amazed world,<br \/>\nwho, duped as me, know not which is which.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see your progeny of evils come to jail!<br \/>\nYou want debate? You want dissension?<br \/>\nI am their parent and original, by no relation to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(An Erasure based upon A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, Act II Sc. 1, Titania by Sir William Shakespeare) Forgeries of jealousy, you creeping hags! Haven\u2019t you done enough to me? Never, since the day we met in 1962, not Christmas, nor Thanksgiving, nor Easter day, by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54535","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59534,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54535\/revisions\/59534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}