{"id":95203,"date":"2021-06-26T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95203"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:05:59","slug":"cold-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/cold-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Turkey<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s torture \u2013<br \/>\nno slow dance steps to end<br \/>\na waltz slow and steady; no<br \/>\nwait-I-need-more-time time,<br \/>\nno give-me-another-chance<br \/>\nto do-be-better.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not fair \u2013<br \/>\nno warning bell telling me<br \/>\nto get off the tracks, a train<br \/>\nis going to barrel through me.<br \/>\nNo commercial interruption<br \/>\nto let me get another glass of<br \/>\nwine-water-vodka before the show<br \/>\nsweeps me up to land on my back,<br \/>\nbreathless with surprise-awe-<br \/>\ndisappointment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s killing me \u2013<br \/>\ndeprived-unsated-needing<br \/>\na fix, a hug, a shoulder to keep me<br \/>\nmoving along without you, without<br \/>\nme falling to pieces like a broken<br \/>\njigsaw puzzle box, middles-corners-<br \/>\nborders piled together in a heap<br \/>\nof lost intersections.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t do it \u2013<br \/>\nrefuse to let you go, let you<br \/>\nmove on without me-us-we.<br \/>\nI\u2019m on my way, will find you<br \/>\nwherever the ends of the earth<br \/>\nstop.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 26, 2021 Hour 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Turkey It\u2019s torture \u2013 no slow dance steps to end a waltz slow and steady; no wait-I-need-more-time time, no give-me-another-chance to do-be-better. It\u2019s not fair \u2013 no warning bell telling me to get off the tracks, a train is going to barrel through me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95214,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95203\/revisions\/95214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}