{"id":98156,"date":"2021-06-26T21:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98156"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:57:01","slug":"the-boy-next-door-13-of-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-boy-next-door-13-of-24\/","title":{"rendered":"the boy next door &#8211; 13 of 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: suicide<\/p>\n<p>Bang! What a way to go! With all that dynamite!<br \/>\nThere was no decline, no allay,<br \/>\njust his absolute and then his abolishment<br \/>\nand at such altitude!<br \/>\nI hope you stop going up.  Will you be<br \/>\nhigh enough? Will you sip on the<br \/>\nhelium of a balloon abandoned by a child<br \/>\nafter a disappointing birthday party?<br \/>\nYour head inflates next.<br \/>\nMommy grabs the bleach for his little hands.<br \/>\nBang! What a way to go! With all that oxygen!<br \/>\nWho survives? The suicidal seven year old,<br \/>\nhis ankles blistering from too-small shoes,<br \/>\nor you, the next door neighbor, drunk again<br \/>\nand again, and again? You blame it on<br \/>\nyour alcoholic bloodstream, he<br \/>\nblames it on his father\u2019s.<br \/>\nThe both of you are unlovable, try this on for size.<br \/>\nThe both of you are too high, try the ground for once.<br \/>\nFetch the Barometer! Bang! What a way to go!<br \/>\nYou both went high, your veins stuffed with<br \/>\na casualty\u2019s broth and he, six feet off the ground,<br \/>\ntaller than he will ever be.<br \/>\nCrash! What a way to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: suicide Bang! What a way to go! With all that dynamite! There was no decline, no allay, just his absolute and then his abolishment and at such altitude! I hope you stop going up. Will you be high enough? Will you sip on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98156","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98222,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98156\/revisions\/98222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}