{"id":75792,"date":"2020-06-28T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75792"},"modified":"2020-06-28T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:59:14","slug":"dizzy-with-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/dizzy-with-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Dizzy with Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dizzy with Poison<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ant stumbles across the bathroom floor,<\/p>\n<p>swirling, twisting, roaming without ambition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Normally bee-lining for food, this dance<\/p>\n<p>reeks of the poison set out yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Towards the window, away, towards again, away,<\/p>\n<p>swayed by a wind no one else can feel, circling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I take the bottle of Raid and spray, dousing<\/p>\n<p>the ant with amounts that drown, not trusting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the <em>kill on contact <\/em>label plastered<\/p>\n<p>across the cool can. But I missed. In the mirror<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see the same dance, spinning and whirling<\/p>\n<p>in directions I never knew I could go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dizzy with Poison &nbsp; The ant stumbles across the bathroom floor, swirling, twisting, roaming without ambition. &nbsp; Normally bee-lining for food, this dance reeks of the poison set out yesterday. &nbsp; Towards the window, away, towards again, away, swayed by a wind no one else&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75792","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75794,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75792\/revisions\/75794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}