{"id":206,"date":"2011-04-14T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-04-14T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T04:48:09","slug":"killing-friends-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/killing-friends-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Friends &#8211; A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through a forest a young girl jogs<br \/>\nchasing the sounds of cries and sobs<br \/>\nBut then, poor Dana, she&#8217;s chased after<br \/>\nThey grab her ankles and scream with laughter<\/p>\n<p>Earth attacked by alien fleets<br \/>\nWho mame and kill out on the streets<br \/>\nNothing compared to what&#8217;s in store<br \/>\nWhile two men fight to end the war<\/p>\n<p>A drunken man who shoves and swears<br \/>\n<em>accidentally<\/em> stumbles down the stairs<br \/>\nForced upon Janine: a hobby<br \/>\nFinding a place to hide the body<\/p>\n<p>A day of flirting and celebration<br \/>\nThe look in his eyes, an indication<br \/>\nLike something a thriller writer wrote<br \/>\nHe wraps his hands around her throat.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A mythical creature on a journey<br \/>\nSuffers from loneliness and worry<br \/>\nAt last, she finds the one she needs<br \/>\nUpon the ground he screams and bleeds<\/p>\n<p>A girl who cries in a hospital bed<br \/>\nScared and abused by the dead.<br \/>\nHer story waiting to be told<br \/>\nBut for now, It&#8217;s put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the house a family sleeping<br \/>\nThey can not hear the muffled screaming.<br \/>\nA mother tries to save her kids<br \/>\nShadowed hands on their eyelids.<\/p>\n<p>A nurse treats fingers, toes and tongues<br \/>\nA sigh of air escapes her lungs<br \/>\nSoon, she will go home to face it<br \/>\nThe secret locked within her basement<\/p>\n<p>So many things I want to write<br \/>\nLike battles fought and gifted sight<br \/>\nBut now, until the series ends,<br \/>\nWith a pen and ink, I kill my friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a forest a young girl jogs<br \/>\nchasing the sounds of cries and sobs<br \/>\nBut then, poor Dana, she&#8217;s chased after<br \/>\nThey grab her ankles and scream with laughter<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/killing-friends-a-poem\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-killing-friends","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklidstone.com\/TheWriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}