{"id":8314,"date":"2015-06-13T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:56:06","slug":"left-is-best-persona-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/left-is-best-persona-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Left is Best &#8211; Persona Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left hand only<\/p>\n<p>For handling contraband<\/p>\n<p>And anything unholy,<\/p>\n<p>If you please &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>It just keeps me at ease:<\/p>\n<p>Sinistro,<\/p>\n<p>Sinister,<\/p>\n<p>Visitor,<\/p>\n<p>Prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>The right is for right-doing:<\/p>\n<p>Things that save me from ruin:<\/p>\n<p>Not for wiping the ejaculate from the mirror,<\/p>\n<p>Not for stabbing myself with the scissors,<\/p>\n<p>Certainly not for squeezing the life out of someone until they wither,<\/p>\n<p>The right hand is not the hand of a killer.<\/p>\n<p>Not for seventy percent of them who would have recommended<\/p>\n<p>That for those responsible for a series of lives being ended,<\/p>\n<p>Left is most definitely the best &#8211; they&#8217;ve put it to the test:<\/p>\n<p>Sinistro,<\/p>\n<p>Sinister,<\/p>\n<p>Visitor,<\/p>\n<p>Prisoner.<\/p>\n<p>(c) Gemma Hinton 13\/06\/15<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left hand only For handling contraband And anything unholy, If you please &#8211; It just keeps me at ease: Sinistro, Sinister, Visitor, Prisoner. The right is for right-doing: Things that save me from ruin: Not for wiping the ejaculate from the mirror, Not for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}