{"id":784,"date":"2015-08-22T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=784"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T17:18:55","slug":"pursuit-classic-30-line-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit [Classic] (30 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>To round things out, since today is (apparently) &#8216;Demon Day&#8217;, here is another terrible but silly old poem about death and hell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>They stole my heart<br \/>\nThey took my brain<br \/>\nThey threw my body off the train<br \/>\nYet magic made me whole again<br \/>\nBut now I&#8217;ve witnessed death<\/p>\n<p>I stalk them now<br \/>\nI roam the night<br \/>\nMy body whole, my mind not right<br \/>\nI see ahead a distant light<br \/>\nAnd draw a rasping breath<\/p>\n<p>I shuffle nearer<br \/>\nTo the place<br \/>\nA look of menace on my face<br \/>\nMy anxious steps become a race<br \/>\nI open up the door<\/p>\n<p>I step inside<br \/>\nThey scream, &#8220;Surprise!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd poke their fingers in my eyes<br \/>\nBut I choke each one till he dies<br \/>\nThen throw him\u00a0on the floor<\/p>\n<p>The episode<br \/>\nHas just begun<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s time to have some fun<br \/>\nI look around and find a gun<br \/>\nAnd blow my face away<\/p>\n<p>Falling, falling<br \/>\nDown a well<br \/>\nWe land amid\u00a0the fires of Hell<br \/>\nI grin a grin so they can tell<br \/>\nThat now it&#8217;s time to play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To round things out, since today is (apparently) &#8216;Demon Day&#8217;, here is another terrible but silly old poem about death and hell. They stole my heart They took my brain They threw my body off the train Yet magic made me whole again But now I&#8217;ve witnessed death I stalk them now I roam the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pursuit [Classic] (30 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}