{"id":9799,"date":"2015-06-13T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:31:24","slug":"untitled-we-need-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/untitled-we-need-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled (We need poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We come in threads of silk and tweed<\/p>\n<p>with lists of all the things we need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Clipboards high, we requisition<\/p>\n<p>goods befitting our position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through honest labor, never greed<\/p>\n<p>do we collect the things we need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ownership&#8217;s a tricky dance<\/p>\n<p>when what should be mine is yours by chance,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but on this we&#8217;re all agreed:<\/p>\n<p>none may deny us in our need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you see how well we dress?<\/p>\n<p>Does this not in and of itself impress?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d be sore ashamed to make you bleed,<\/p>\n<p>but we need all that we need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your cries of want fail to move us,<\/p>\n<p>we are short on pity, long on purpose,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>likewise your communistic screed<\/p>\n<p>will not change the things we need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So though you may attempt to court us,<\/p>\n<p>do not think that you can thwart us,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for shake a hand or draw a bead,<\/p>\n<p>we will get the things we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We come in threads of silk and tweed with lists of all the things we need. &nbsp; Clipboards high, we requisition goods befitting our position. &nbsp; Through honest labor, never greed do we collect the things we need. &nbsp; Ownership&#8217;s a tricky dance when what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","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\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9809,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}