(for hour 4\u2014last-line prompt)<\/p>\n
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Cleansing Night<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amid the eruption of the righteous<\/p>\n and night-lighting fires,<\/p>\n their anger finally stokes to overboiling.<\/p>\n A brick crashes through the mechanic\u2019s window<\/p>\n and the traitor is pulled to the street<\/p>\n to pay for his sins;<\/p>\n not only hiding some bigot\u2019s car<\/p>\n but repairing it for the dirty-dollar bribe<\/p>\n to release the carbon-pouting menace<\/p>\n back on the world.<\/p>\n Some triggers cannot be borne.<\/p>\n No matter the perpetrator\u2019s race or creed.<\/p>\n Tom\u2019s shop will hide menace no more.<\/p>\n His magnanimous judges allow him to watch,<\/p>\n allow him to repent and offer alms,<\/p>\n and pray for calm when the morning comes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cAnd pray for calm when the morning comes.\u201d is the last line of Problems in Annady\u2019s Core<\/em>, book 3 of the Dragons in Space Series by Sandy Lender.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (for hour 4\u2014last-line prompt) Cleansing Night Amid the eruption of the righteous and night-lighting fires, their anger finally stokes to overboiling. A brick crashes through the mechanic\u2019s window and the traitor is pulled to the street to pay for his sins; not only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,4253],"class_list":["post-90475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-last-line-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90509,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions\/90509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}