{"id":2845,"date":"2011-11-10T00:45:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2011-11-10T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:35:40","slug":"poetry-scribbles-running-dog-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Scribble: Running Dog Poetry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poem about my puppy dog! I think pet poems are right up there with love poems as the BEST POETRY GENRES, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRunning Away<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a constant<br \/>\nka-thunk<br \/>\nka-thunk<br \/>\nka-thunk<br \/>\nas I re-enter.<br \/>\nWaiting until the hatch is sealed<br \/>\nI open the door.<br \/>\nYou run in circles,<br \/>\npaws at my legs,<br \/>\nwanting to feel me,<br \/>\nknow I&#8217;m real<br \/>\nand not an illusion after<br \/>\nhaving been alone for so long.<br \/>\nWe sit on the couch.<br \/>\nWe sleep.<br \/>\nI feel like you&#8217;re content, surely.<br \/>\nA nice little world<br \/>\nwith me in it<br \/>\nthat I made for you.<br \/>\nBlankets, food, affection,<br \/>\neverything.<\/p>\n<p>Then I open the door and you run.<br \/>\nI chase after you,<br \/>\nyelling,<br \/>\ntripping over myself<br \/>\nsocks slamming against dirt<br \/>\nas I move across the wet grass.<br \/>\nYou see something,<br \/>\na glint in the distant freedom,<br \/>\nand your paws cannot stop,<br \/>\ntongue flapping in the wind.<\/p>\n<p>I finally catch up,<br \/>\nbreathing harder than you,<br \/>\nand you roll on your back,<br \/>\nhappy,<br \/>\nor so I think.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what else to give you<br \/>\nthat could compare to unknown horizons.<br \/>\nI had thought a lack of starvation<br \/>\nand lack of loneliness<br \/>\nwould be enough.<br \/>\nYou pat my leg,<br \/>\nwanting,<br \/>\nand I am useless.<br \/>\nI have never been an open road.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always been a bottle,<br \/>\ncontained,<br \/>\nwaiting for my seal to break.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a poem about my puppy dog! I think pet poems are right up there with love poems as the BEST POETRY GENRES, don&#8217;t you think? Running Away There&#8217;s a constant ka-thunk ka-thunk ka-thunk as I re-enter. Waiting until the hatch is sealed I open the door. You run in circles, paws at my legs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}