{"id":7560,"date":"2015-02-28T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/28\/for-those-who-werent-there-or-hadnt-remembered\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:53:02","slug":"for-those-who-werent-there-or-hadnt-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/02\/28\/for-those-who-werent-there-or-hadnt-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

for those who weren’t there, or hadn’t remembered, let me remind you: I used to take sportS VERY SERIUOSLY<\/p>\n

one year, probably my most fanatic about ALL sports, coincided with me taking a poetry class at the community college. and there are. some gEMS:<\/p>\n

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I want the grasses to bow their verdant heads,
Prostrate themselves before they are freed of their roots,
Flung into piles of erupting green flame.<\/p>\n

I want the sea of concrete to still its waves,
Tranquility ruling empty lots,
The only movement that of spying birds.<\/p>\n

I want golden horses to graze the barren fields,
Want them to eat greedily of dry earth
And leave coded hoofprints in their wake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

this goes on for TWELVE<\/p>\n

MORE<\/p>\n

STANZAS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

for those who weren’t there, or hadn’t remembered, let me remind you: I used to take sportS VERY SERIUOSLY one year, probably my most fanatic about ALL sports, coincided with me taking a poetry class at the community college. and there are. some gEMS: I want the grasses to bow their verdant heads,Prostrate themselves before … <\/p>\n

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