{"id":501,"date":"2019-06-18T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2019-06-18T19:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T00:17:37","slug":"i-got-mad-and-wrote-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/18\/i-got-mad-and-wrote-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"I got mad and wrote a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes that happens. I can&#8217;t avoid every headline, damn it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is Sin?<br><br><\/strong>I can point you to what catechism you choose<br>Or I can tell you this. The unnamed man<br>Who vandalized and killed the Holy Thorn<br>Distilled an act of speech with just one aim:<br>To hurt its lovers\u2019 hearts. In actual fact<br>The worst things ever said to me were things<br>I heard said to my mother. To profane<br>A thing someone holds holy is to take<br>Their soul in effigy and burn it, so it does<br>Not matter then if you were only careless.<br>Paradise has been wiped off the map.<br>The inferno\u2019s wave swept over, and the still-<br>Frame frames of burned-out cars mid-flight<br>Still sign their silent testament of ash<br>To what carelessness means. Do you hear me?<br>But it gets worse. All I can do is write<br>A verse as blank as my expression is<br>On contact with the boasted atrocities<br>Done in my name. They would, quite literally,<br>Destroy the world sooner than have to see<br>People they hate escape their suffering.<br>The people they hate are holy. Nero burns<br>His tiki torches in Charlottesville, and thinks<br>He\u2019s good, cause Snopes debunked that faulty tale<br>That said he fiddled while Rome burned. He\u2019s not.<br>Those torches were people, and now they\u2019re witnesses.<br>Thick clouds of witness boil across the sun.<br>Don\u2019t spit your decalogues at suffering souls,<br>Don\u2019t pour contempt on how they name themselves,<br>Don\u2019t roadblock their escapes from cruelties,<br>Don\u2019t jeer and scoff, lest you turn and find yourself<br>An arsonist, or an idiot with a match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes that happens. I can&#8217;t avoid every headline, damn it. What is Sin? I can point you to what catechism you chooseOr I can tell you this. The unnamed manWho vandalized and killed the Holy ThornDistilled an act of speech with just one aim:To hurt its lovers\u2019 hearts. In actual factThe worst things ever said<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/18\/i-got-mad-and-wrote-a-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More&nbsp;<i class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><!-- entry-read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,88],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/payFy4-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ldinmanbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}