{"id":95505,"date":"2021-06-26T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95505"},"modified":"2021-07-18T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:36:21","slug":"still-stands-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/still-stands-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Stands the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cTell \u2018em all to stand up! Tell \u2018em! Tell \u2018em!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As if it will do any good.<br \/>\nLet someone else stand up.<br \/>\nSomeone else, surely, will take a stand<br \/>\nagainst the ills of this world.<\/p>\n<p>I am too busy being an artist,<br \/>\ntoo busy being a worker bee<br \/>\nin the institutions of finance<br \/>\nmaking money to be an artist.<\/p>\n<p>Too busy making money to just be.<br \/>\nToo busy to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSit down!\u201d they might say to me<br \/>\nwhen I insist upon justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSit down!\u201d they\u2019ll shout, when I point<br \/>\nmy truth, like an arrow through<br \/>\nthe nothing of their wicked souls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSit down!\u201d their press will write, when I speak<br \/>\nof their debauchery and sin. These flagrant<br \/>\nmen whose black vision rules our world.<\/p>\n<p>And then, they laugh, these men whose<br \/>\nwithered dicks once saw a child\u2019s uterus<br \/>\nin the darkness of her tiny body.<\/p>\n<p>They laugh. \u201cShe\u2019s just&#8230;<br \/>\ngetting it out of her system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, who believes the matron?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaha! Who believes the witch<br \/>\nwalking between the light and the dark?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell \u2018em to stand up!\u201d shout the dead, \u201cTell \u2018em!<br \/>\n<em>Tell \u2018em!\u201d <\/em>in time eternal.<\/p>\n<p>I already did.<\/p>\n<p>But truth is not a Goebbels theme\u2026 I\u2019m sorry\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cAh, yes,\u201d they chime. \u201cGoebbels.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe gobbled him up yesterday\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIn Nazi pie, with sherry wine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cWe shat him into brine today\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHe grows again and again,\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cTo our dismay.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Again and again,<br \/>\na bored dessert he became,<br \/>\nfor goblins and trolls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll stand up tomorrow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: the first line is from the one-act play \u201cBury the Dead\u201d by Irwin Shaw<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTell \u2018em all to stand up! Tell \u2018em! Tell \u2018em!\u201d As if it will do any good. Let someone else stand up. Someone else, surely, will take a stand against the ills of this world. I am too busy being an artist, too busy being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4487,2675,4486,839],"class_list":["post-95505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-goebbels","tag-metaphysics","tag-nazis","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104492,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505\/revisions\/104492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}