That Siphonophore Apolemia looks like a wall
\npulled down from a saloon
\nto make room for the sea urchin school –
\nthey don’t have recess, but they swim
\nin algebraic equations.<\/p>\n
A scientist told me that.<\/p>\n
That Siphonophore Apolemia
\nshook itself loose from a candelabra in outer space
\nthat no one had time to ship back to Macy’s
\nand now Santa can’t wrap Rudolph in anything
\nbut a dimestore cheetah coat.<\/p>\n
You don’t shuck an ear next to Siphonophore Apolemia
\nunless you know where the Algae Choir gets their husks.
\nThey dance on ’em. Better than sand.
\nA cook’s tour guide said that,
\nbut he’s anonymous for now.<\/p>\n
Don’t forget to ask for Siphonophore Apolemia
\nat your ice cream and gadgets counter.
\nThey’ll fill your dish and repress your refrigerator.<\/p>\n
Let me have a light from that cig, will ya? That Siphonophore Apolemia looks like a wall pulled down from a saloon to make room for the sea urchin school – they don’t have recess, but they swim in algebraic equations. A scientist told me that. That Siphonophore Apolemia shook itself loose from a candelabra…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[3927],"class_list":["post-74253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-bobdylan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76284,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74253\/revisions\/76284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIs that a Siphonphore Apolemia lighter?
\nThose are keepsakes. [Pockets lighter.]
\nI have two cousins who married Apolemia’s sisters.
\nI don’t know what that makes us<\/em>,
\nbut they’re welcome to my neighbor’s<\/em> guest room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"