{"id":91069,"date":"2021-06-27T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91069"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:34:27","slug":"hour-17-safer-with-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-17-safer-with-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17 – Safer With Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

He read the whole plan in a book<\/p>\n

He intended to ease himself into the water at midnight<\/p>\n

No one would know or blame themselves<\/p>\n

They would spend time looking<\/p>\n

but the plan was perfection<\/p>\n

marked with science,<\/p>\n

enzymes and bacteria<\/p>\n

He loved readying the arrangements<\/p>\n

His body would never be found<\/p>\n

It worked perfectly for the antagonist,<\/p>\n

and he’d been planning it for weeks,<\/p>\n

There were no missing links from the<\/p>\n

author’s description<\/p>\n

of this painless goodbye.<\/p>\n

He had always assumed he was safer with his books,<\/p>\n

But that night, they were waiting for him on the bridge,<\/p>\n

And he finally realized it wasn’t true that books<\/p>\n

are safer than people.<\/p>\n

He let them carry him home.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cBooks were safer than other people anyway.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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