{"id":90456,"date":"2021-06-26T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90456"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:31:22","slug":"prompt-4-last-line-dickens-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prompt-4-last-line-dickens-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt #4: last line (Dickens&#8217; Carol)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod bless us, everyone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the master said (as did the Master<\/p>\n<p>if you believe in him\/it\/her\/them\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>We echo it with the fall of snowflakes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But we don\u2019t, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Bless, I mean. We say that we believe<\/p>\n<p>(although our actions don\u2019t concur).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We rape. We steal. We murder children.<\/p>\n<p>None of this rare. None of it new.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings make the news, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So rare are they <em>a 2-carat Arkansas diamond<\/em><\/p>\n<p>that we are struck as if by a glimmering<\/p>\n<p>of fireflies, rising from a damp grave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I want more blessings. Not for me<\/p>\n<p>but for the children who are separated<\/p>\n<p>from their homes, from their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the women recoiling in fear<\/p>\n<p>the men beaten into straight submission<\/p>\n<p>those who wear strength like a torn mask.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please, God\/Great Spirit\/Universe\/Gaia<\/p>\n<p>Bless us.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod bless us, everyone!\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp; So the master said (as did the Master if you believe in him\/it\/her\/them\u2026) We echo it with the fall of snowflakes. &nbsp; But we don\u2019t, of course. Bless, I mean. We say that we believe (although our actions don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4251,4252,552],"class_list":["post-90456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-dickens","tag-half-marathon-2021","tag-prompt-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90504,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90456\/revisions\/90504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}