{.,}<\/p>\n
blood limes
\nnot exactly like
\nblood diamonds
\nfor sure the blood<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody gets something.\u201d
\n– Robin Roberts<\/p>\n
\u201cI could have been a chicken tender.\u201d
\n– Steven Colbert<\/p>\n
way down in Old Mexico
\nstealing the crop
\nstealing the land
\nkilling the lime farmers<\/p>\n
preparing for the season
\nof gin
\nof tonic
\nof lime
\ndo we really
\nneed to go there
\nthis 2014 season?<\/p>\n
Yes, I still go mad-
\nonly this morning I yelled
\n\u201cGod Damn!\u201d
\nthen my shoulders hunched
\nmy head kinda ducked
\neven with nary a soul in the house
\nit was an embarrassment<\/p>\n
does one ever
\ngain complete control
\nover testosterone-like reactions
\n(isn’t that where
\npeace lives?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{.,} blood limes not exactly like blood diamonds for sure the blood \u201cEverybody gets something.\u201d – Robin Roberts \u201cI could have been a chicken tender.\u201d – Steven Colbert way down in Old Mexico stealing the crop stealing the land killing the lime farmers preparing for the season of gin of tonic of lime do we … Continue reading “Blood Limes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}