{"id":73915,"date":"2020-06-28T02:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73915"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:30:11","slug":"prompt-12-black-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-12-black-like-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 12 Black Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For years the idea haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever&#8221;<br \/>\nI wish I was an equalizer<br \/>\none that changes dialogue<br \/>\nnot one who has to walk on unfinished floors<br \/>\nanswering where did you come from questions<br \/>\nOne that doesn&#8217;t have to speak on behalf of someone else<br \/>\nbefore speaking about self<br \/>\nI wish I lived in a place<br \/>\nwhere every encounter was safe<br \/>\nwhere my son could walk home in the dark<br \/>\nwhere the ideas of someone haring him wouldn&#8217;t haunt me<br \/>\nSomeone did<br \/>\nhe called me 25 times<br \/>\nI missed the calls<br \/>\nall of them<br \/>\nhe said you never pick up for me<br \/>\nhe didn&#8217;t mean it<br \/>\nI just didn&#8217;t that day<br \/>\ntoo busy not paying attention<br \/>\ntoo bust muting myself at work<br \/>\ntoo busy muting my phone<br \/>\nOur lives changed after that<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not about St. Louis <\/p>\n<p>Its not here<br \/>\nSafety<br \/>\nits all an idea<br \/>\nIt feels now, like there is a kiln outside<br \/>\nand its monsoon season<br \/>\nwhere one wrong move<br \/>\nwill send you cascading down a hilly footpaths<\/p>\n<p>I wish I knew a safe place<br \/>\nbut the world is beginning to feel too small for me<br \/>\ntoo small for us<br \/>\ntoo small for truth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For years the idea haunted me, and that night it returned more insistently than ever&#8221; I wish I was an equalizer one that changes dialogue not one who has to walk on unfinished floors answering where did you come from questions One that doesn&#8217;t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73915","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73985,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73915\/revisions\/73985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}