3 p.m. in Georgia, hot and humid
\n3 a.m. in Nuevo Mexico
\ni set my coffee down, leave the room
\nwhen my most available friend cries
\n“it’s spilled all over the place!”
\nit ran down the rocker turning red
\nmore innocent blood
\nanother crazed working mother
\nCongress spends another $460 billion
\nfor Pentagonal warfare
\nand momma works double time
\nwhile down in the deep south
\nChristians chant to her ovaries
\n“be all you can be”
\ntwo more little lights go out in Georgia
\none more momma crazed
\n(but don’t move to Baltimore
\ntheir babies are coming out with asthma)
\npausing, i light two candles,
\npausing again i light a third
\nfor the momma who can’t imagine life
\nwaking up this morning
\nwith two dead children there oughta be
\na hush all over America
\nand coffee spilled
\nblack like oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
3 p.m. in Georgia, hot and humid 3 a.m. in Nuevo Mexico i set my coffee down, leave the room when my most available friend cries “it’s spilled all over the place!” it ran down the rocker turning red more innocent blood another crazed working mother Congress spends another $460 billion for Pentagonal warfare and … Continue reading ““Shut the crap up.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}