By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 3 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST<\/p>\n
Prompt 17; Hour 17: Write a poem about a form of technology that is obsolete or is headed that way. The technology could just be referred to in passing, like a telephone booth, or it could be a CD that is the focal point of the poem. The degree of focus on obsolete technology is up to you.<\/p>\n
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{Not that Pedestal}<\/strong><\/p>\n As Patti la Belle belted out from the old CD player,<\/p>\n She said to me, “You take my breath away, Ajanta”<\/p>\n I replied, “It\u2019s important to breathe<\/p>\n Removing someone\u2019s breath from their body is a concern for me<\/p>\n A heavy responsibility<\/p>\n Will I be too much. Am\u00a0I too much?<\/p>\n Will that person be enough for me?<\/p>\n Am I already on a pedestal?<\/p>\n Goddesses forbid that for sentient beings<\/p>\n I might be elevated beyond my status as a mere mortal<\/p>\n with all my foibles and idiosyncrasies<\/p>\n which will no doubt emerge over time<\/p>\n personality traits – nuances – nagging little behaviours<\/p>\n The CD will be scratched – the song will stutter and splutter<\/p>\n You will assume and apply judgement<\/p>\n destabilising to a damsel on a pedestal<\/p>\n It could build up quite a wobble and down I’ll crash in\u00a0your estimation.<\/p>\n This thing we might share – a tenuous possibility<\/p>\n as the beat struggles to play through the flaws<\/p>\n Always the concern in the beginning and after all,<\/p>\n it has been said by others that I am too much for them<\/p>\n and when all was said and done<\/p>\n I was too much for them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ajanta Judd All Rights Reserved – 3 pm 28\/06\/2020 Australian EST Prompt 17; Hour 17: Write a poem about a form of technology that is obsolete or is headed that way. The technology could just be referred to in passing, like a telephone booth,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216","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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73588,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216\/revisions\/73588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}