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The word normal hovers<\/span><\/p>\n outside of the unexpected,<\/span><\/p>\n that is to say\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n that it exists outside of life itself.<\/span><\/p>\n Normal is the fantasy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n you created in your Barbie dream house.<\/span><\/p>\n It is milk that still tastes the same<\/span><\/p>\n after the cereal has come and gone.<\/span><\/p>\n An orchid blooming in dry heat,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n resting in my mother\u2019s living room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Normal is the curtains closed\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n when I am hypomanic and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n laughter when I\u2019m depressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is a night unkissed by satellite blinks<\/span><\/p>\n or a moment when all I can feel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n is joy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Only Want What I Cannot Touch The word normal hovers outside of the unexpected, that is to say\u00a0 that it exists outside of life itself. Normal is the fantasy\u00a0 you created in your Barbie dream house. It is milk that still tastes the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93326","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\/3778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93333,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93326\/revisions\/93333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}