{"id":641,"date":"2014-08-16T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2014-08-16T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T03:42:09","slug":"the-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Everyone,<\/div>\n
I’m\u00a0 Harvey Schwartz and I’m a Techno-phobic.<\/div>\n
It’s kinda like I just moved to a new town and know the basic route to get from my house to work…but get me a block away and I’m lost. That’s how I am with computers.<\/div>\n
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I don’t do any social media but I do take writing classes at Western WA University…which has forced me to learn the major streets…<\/div>\n
But – I’m a little slow negotiating the curves of websites or blogs or whatever we are cyber sharing at this moment.<\/div>\n
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Somewhere – related to this event – I put a bio\/statement of purpose that I’ve been playing with.<\/div>\n
So – I’m gonna assume that you can read that if you’re interested.<\/div>\n
And, either way I wrote a prep poem today that is listed below.<\/div>\n
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(And just to be honest and qualify my presence – it’s possible that a visit from an out of town son could derail this project for me – but I’d love to do it and hope that I can.)<\/div>\n
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I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with and how I deal with poetry fatigue.<\/div>\n
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Harvey Schwartz<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Marathon<\/div>\n

Being in a poetry marathon is like being the nail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And an overhead hammer is racing toward me
\nLike a clock that is slowly ticking – about to hit the next hour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Or is it a flower petal that absorbs rays from the sun?
\nwhich is really my keyboard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

that is clacking away<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

noisy sun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 petal to the metal<\/div>\n

Or is it a chance to exercise?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

stretch mind muscles to<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

throw instead of catch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As if all the world’s a stage…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and I’m the understudy<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and he really did break a leg.<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harvey Schwartz<\/div>\n
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Hi Everyone, I’m\u00a0 Harvey Schwartz and I’m a Techno-phobic. It’s kinda like I just moved to a new town and know the basic route to get from my house to work…but get me a block away and I’m lost. That’s how I am with computers….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}