{"id":90244,"date":"2021-06-26T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90244"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:22:26","slug":"hr-4-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hr-4-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"HR 4 &#8211; Text Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grab a book from your shelf. Read the last line in it. You have to use that line as the first or last line of your poem (with credit).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Last Note From Your Narrator: I am haunted by humans.&#8221; \u2014 Markus Zusak,\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375842209?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bustle4447-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0375842209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Book Thief<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe<\/p>\n<p>I see what you&#8217;ve done to them.<br \/>\nThe children &#8211;<br \/>\nthey used to sing and dance and play.<\/p>\n<p>Their eyes are hollow &#8211; from disappointing you.<\/p>\n<p>When did you become comfortable<br \/>\nenough with capitalism, to trust it with your<br \/>\nbabies?<\/p>\n<p>They are carved and refined,<br \/>\nsculpted cogs to take your place,<br \/>\nin the warm machine after you die.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe while they are 6, they should learn how to laugh and play and find joy.<br \/>\nMaybe then, when they are 26, it will be an ingrained habit, like breathing. Maybe they could learn to live for that instead of money.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you should let your children be children.<br \/>\nYour priorities are confused.<br \/>\n&#8220;I am [and remain] haunted by humans&#8221; (Markus Zusak).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Prompt Grab a book from your shelf. Read the last line in it. You have to use that line as the first or last line of your poem (with credit). &#8220;A Last Note From Your Narrator: I am haunted by humans.&#8221; \u2014 Markus Zusak,\u00a0The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90244","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\/1302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90375,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90244\/revisions\/90375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}