{"id":93485,"date":"2021-06-26T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93485"},"modified":"2021-06-26T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:25:15","slug":"my-mother-is-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-mother-is-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"my mother is a fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>oh Addie,<br \/>\nyou rest in power<br \/>\nthe privileged kind<br \/>\na dying wish that for your family becomes<br \/>\na death wish of sea monster proportions<\/p>\n<p>the dirge of your daughter<br \/>\nis for her child as well<br \/>\nand the nails of your coffin<br \/>\ncannot keep the book of Addie closed<br \/>\neven for a night<\/p>\n<p>you plucked the minister&#8217;s bed<br \/>\na stench even before death<br \/>\nthat oozed in your sweat<br \/>\nand your children too<br \/>\na curse of verse and platitude<\/p>\n<p>oh, Addie<br \/>\nthe dead woman drowns<br \/>\nfloats, in a coffin boat<br \/>\na tainted fish<br \/>\nreeled back in to be roasted on a fire<\/p>\n<p>oh, Addie<br \/>\nwhere behavior and intention meet<br \/>\nwhether noble or nefarious<br \/>\nyour children wash their hands<br \/>\nof you;<br \/>\nand your husband,<br \/>\nsmiling through fake teeth and faker blessings<br \/>\ngrooms a bride<br \/>\nfound with the shovels borrowed for your burial<br \/>\nrest in power<br \/>\nrotting<br \/>\noh, Addie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oh Addie, you rest in power the privileged kind a dying wish that for your family becomes a death wish of sea monster proportions the dirge of your daughter is for her child as well and the nails of your coffin cannot keep the book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93819,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions\/93819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}