Every day,<\/p>\n
I ask myself<\/p>\n
\u201cAre there any questions?\u201d<\/p>\n
way too many to mention<\/p>\n
but I will, with intention.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do I look fat?<\/p>\n
Should I eat that?<\/p>\n
What should I wear?<\/p>\n
Does it make me look thinner?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Should I sleep early?<\/p>\n
Or stay up too late?<\/p>\n
Will morning be dreary?<\/p>\n
Shall I leave that to fate?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
What foods should I choose?<\/p>\n
Shall I buy me some booze?<\/p>\n
Will it make me happy?<\/p>\n
Or make me a fatty?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And why, oh why<\/p>\n
do my feet suddenly dry?<\/p>\n
Why does menopause try<\/p>\n
my patience?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Why lose elasticity?<\/p>\n
Why night sweats do I mop?<\/p>\n
Why does my stomach pop?<\/p>\n
Why do I feel shitty?<\/p>\n
When will it ever stop?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Why do we hurt?<\/p>\n
Do people need to be jerks?<\/p>\n
Is life just a farce<\/p>\n
with rage, wrecks and cars?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Why does traffic bite?<\/p>\n
Why have a yellow, bright?<\/p>\n
Or red, is it right?<\/p>\n
Why blow through this light?<\/p>\n
Will they come home tonight?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Why, oh why?<\/p>\n
Does life have to drive<\/p>\n
me crazy?<\/p>\n
Why can\u2019t I stay dry<\/p>\n
even with an umbrella?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
– Sandra Johnson, 6\/26\/21<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Are there any questions?”<\/p>\n
\u00a0Credit: The Handmaid’s Tale,<\/em> Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every day, I ask myself \u201cAre there any questions?\u201d way too many to mention but I will, with intention. Do I look fat? Should I eat that? What should I wear? Does it make me look thinner? Should I sleep early? Or stay…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4267,10,1792,403],"class_list":["post-90097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-poetry","tag-questions","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90097","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90097\/revisions\/103996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}