{"id":97096,"date":"2021-06-26T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97096"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:32:41","slug":"too-much-pt-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/too-much-pt-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much pt two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One sea green suitcase, one<br \/>\ncelestial backpack. My markers<br \/>\nreturned to me. <\/p>\n<p>An apartment this time\u2014 two<br \/>\nto a room, three rooms per apartment. <\/p>\n<p>Shifts of techs, 15 minutes.<br \/>\nTo be monitored. Find the patient,<br \/>\nmark the room, move on. <\/p>\n<p>Group therapy: one facilitator, fifteen<br \/>\npatients, assigned topic. Go!<br \/>\nYou have one hour. You have four<br \/>\ntech checks. <\/p>\n<p>One, two, three. Lunch.<br \/>\nFour, five. Dinner.<br \/>\nSix, seven. Sleep.<br \/>\nClockwork clockwork<\/p>\n<p>Kris across the room eating<br \/>\nCheetos in a seroquel haze. <\/p>\n<p>Books open my chest like<br \/>\nsharpened rib shears, my<br \/>\nclavicle swinging wide,<br \/>\nbeautiful French doors. <\/p>\n<p>Flecks of brain crusting<br \/>\nunder my fingernails. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve started eating<br \/>\nin a seroquel haze.<br \/>\nCrumbs in my bed.<br \/>\nKris would be proud. <\/p>\n<p>Panic and crying and EMDR<br \/>\nand writing and, wait for it\u2014<br \/>\ncollapse. <\/p>\n<p>Off to the next chapter.<br \/>\nJust for stabilization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sea green suitcase, one celestial backpack. My markers returned to me. An apartment this time\u2014 two to a room, three rooms per apartment. Shifts of techs, 15 minutes. To be monitored. Find the patient, mark the room, move on. Group therapy: one facilitator, fifteen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97096","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97116,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97096\/revisions\/97116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}