{"id":61820,"date":"2020-06-27T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61820"},"modified":"2020-07-24T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:51:35","slug":"roxane-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/roxane-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She read to our class about rape and race,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More freckles than tears on her beautiful face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She smiled and said reach out anytime,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few months later, I did, when I felt my prime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The kindness was gone, the smile dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her rejection drilled through my heart and I bled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I bought a pack of pills,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And drove to empty, paved hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I swallowed the words, the pills and pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then the firefighters came.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under fluorescent lights and tubes, I came through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And to Joshua Tree, like a tumbleweed, I blew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I never wrote her again, but her name pops up,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her fame rises with each American cultural hiccup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I see those freckles in a different light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She has already lost sight.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She read to our class about rape and race, More freckles than tears on her beautiful face. She smiled and said reach out anytime, A few months later, I did, when I felt my prime. The kindness was gone, the smile dead. Her rejection drilled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136,5],"tags":[3432,3540,47,347],"class_list":["post-61820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-prompt1","tag-famous-female","tag-hour-1","tag-prompt-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61820"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79346,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions\/79346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}