{"id":91387,"date":"2021-06-26T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91387"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:27:33","slug":"motley-5-of-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/motley-5-of-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Motley &#8211; 5 of 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the libertine cracks some<br \/>\nmarsupials into the frying pan<br \/>\nthe noise they make<br \/>\nas the sear makes him wince<br \/>\nand beg for deafness<\/p>\n<p>he is malcontent and ambidextrous,<br \/>\nwith his other hand, he shuffles<br \/>\nfor a round of rummy,<br \/>\nwhich he will play with a motley.<\/p>\n<p>the rest of the scoundrels,<br \/>\ninelegant as they are, lined the bases<br \/>\nin the back lot<br \/>\nand hit a homerun each time.<\/p>\n<p>they are discontinued and abbreviated<br \/>\ncharred at the edges, ganged up<br \/>\na synecdoche for their specific sins<br \/>\nwould be the crimes<\/p>\n<p>the cynosure practices his pitching<br \/>\nand trades out his aces<br \/>\nfor an empty hand, the winner,<br \/>\nsniffling praise up through a straw.<\/p>\n<p>he is frosted and bombastic,<br \/>\nwith his monologue in every building,<br \/>\nhis dishonor sheds off in pellets,<br \/>\nthese men, microcosms of murderers<br \/>\nyet unborn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the libertine cracks some marsupials into the frying pan the noise they make as the sear makes him wince and beg for deafness he is malcontent and ambidextrous, with his other hand, he shuffles for a round of rummy, which he will play with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91387","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91396,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91387\/revisions\/91396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}