{"id":56029,"date":"2019-06-23T03:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56029"},"modified":"2019-06-23T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:17:59","slug":"oh-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/oh-dear\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Dear…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Unmentionable Organization<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whose unjust nature creates<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hell from a handbasket,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Look, this wasn\u2019t my idea, you know\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 1962 thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All I did was stick out my tongue<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Trying to make the son of a bitch laugh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I was a toddler, for God\u2019s sake!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just a loving little girl<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Who thought everyone in the world<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Loved her back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I expected a hug,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And a smile.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And we got an attack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, tell me that isn\u2019t crazy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to figure it out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You see, I\u2019m all grown up now,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly sixty years old,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Though that opportunistic freak<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You called a leader said otherwise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s face it, Bro\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although, you say we\u2019re all in this<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Together\u2026.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You and I both know we\u2019re not.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Out here, we\u2019re adults.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We admit when we\u2019re wrong,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And we know when we\u2019re right.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re fair, and we seek justice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You, on the other hand,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not so sure that these<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mountains of molehills are all that<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Forward thinking<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Relative to the good of the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We disagree that<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Embarrassment over not really being<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Greatest<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is all that big a deal in the grand<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Scheme of things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone else knows we\u2019re not,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After all; so, who is being fooled<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By whom?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The answer to that is you,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Full circle.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The circle of crazy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Waving flags at one another<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To the point that all are blinded<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

By the cloth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Quite a circus you\u2019ve got going on there<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In those \u201cgreat\u201d halls.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, if we could get some adults<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the show\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Unmentionable Organization Whose unjust nature creates Hell from a handbasket, Look, this wasn\u2019t my idea, you know\u2026 The 1962 thing. All I did was stick out my tongue Trying to make the son of a bitch laugh. I was a toddler, for God\u2019s sake!…<\/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-56029","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\/56029","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=56029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56037,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56029\/revisions\/56037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}