{"id":97663,"date":"2021-06-26T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97663"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:56:48","slug":"flower-box-in-the-overton-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/flower-box-in-the-overton-window\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOWER-BOX IN THE OVERTON WINDOW – Hour Twelve (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

FLOWER-BOX IN THE OVERTON WINDOW<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

there\u2019s a faerie in that flower and it\u2019s perfectly obvious to me<\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t be surprised if you don\u2019t see, it\u2019s been thirty-three years of this crap<\/span><\/p>\n

fertilize as we say at the zonk league roll that vanna and land it like a legend<\/span><\/p>\n

thankfully nowadays the weird witch is a brand and not even a budget brand at that<\/span><\/p>\n

so if someone says charlatan I can say no bootleg fam just as advertised ask the plants<\/span><\/p>\n

crystals hanging from everything and tetris my own art above herb-brushed countertops<\/span><\/p>\n

my accumulating mind one crow bending tools for any fellow as destiny requests of me<\/span><\/p>\n

the pizza box is empty and was empty yesterday, ah so, such is life<\/span><\/p>\n

you\u2019re such a pessimist you\u2019d only find a four-leaf clover rhapsody in blue<\/span><\/p>\n

one flower seems more like an accident than an archetype being frank<\/span><\/p>\n

some of this is faulty memory and some darkened stairs with the lights gone out<\/span><\/p>\n

italian ice in a box at my feet with a secret message be spoontaneous<\/span><\/p>\n

which gave me the sense of fumbling for my keys in a horror movie and I wasn\u2019t a fan<\/span><\/p>\n

a caravan of merchant treasures and ancient action figures and one perfect spiderweb<\/span><\/p>\n

counting stairs with a hand on the wall remembering which doors have rugs for tripping on<\/span><\/p>\n

nobody asked if vault boy would stand near godzilla and it was honestly a little rude<\/span><\/p>\n

closing my eyes and opening them and discovering no difference<\/span><\/p>\n

our nightmares contain monsters but the monsters\u2019 nightmares feature corporate scheduling<\/span><\/p>\n

since I\u2019ll only tolerate a bad ending when I already know it word for word<\/span><\/p>\n

so I wrote my own story as a movie script and someone signed michael bay to direct<\/span><\/p>\n

yeah and I will watch through my fingers because I need my own hand to remind me I\u2019m real<\/span><\/p>\n

swinging with the kicks and locks and looping backwards in a pencil figment<\/span><\/p>\n

like some lines are too soft<\/span><\/p>\n

like I can\u2019t trust myself to sketch a circle<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FLOWER-BOX IN THE OVERTON WINDOW   there\u2019s a faerie in that flower and it\u2019s perfectly obvious to me I won\u2019t be surprised if you don\u2019t see, it\u2019s been thirty-three years of this crap fertilize as we say at the zonk league roll that vanna and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97663","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\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97696,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97663\/revisions\/97696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}