{"id":820,"date":"2019-08-24T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=820"},"modified":"2019-08-31T01:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T01:35:39","slug":"dead-weight-alyssa-herron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/08\/24\/dead-weight-alyssa-herron\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Weight | by Alyssa Herron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Lugging the corpses of cast- aside ideas, <br>false starts and failures across a finish line&nbsp;<br><br>To find you still have to keep walking&nbsp;<br><br>No arms to lead you to rest <br>No waiting water <br>No way back to start except to retrace steps&nbsp;<br><br>No way but more walking&nbsp;<br><br>Be grateful, mantra to mind <br>perpetual <br>releasing <br>still comparative&nbsp;<br><br>Grateful&nbsp;<br><br>But-&nbsp;<br><br>Hush, yourself, you think with <br>Hissed mind trails&nbsp;<br><br>God damn it&nbsp;<br><br>Gratefulgratefulgratefulgratefulgrateful&nbsp;<br><br>Fake artistry and&nbsp;<br><br>impostured awareness&nbsp;<br><br>Call your careful broke <br>and your indulgence fat&nbsp;<br><br>Gratef-&nbsp;<br>Can\u2019t even finish the word <br>the symptom sticks <br>in a medicated throat&nbsp;<br><br>Perpetually swollen <br>so words can\u2019t get out&nbsp;<br><br>Grate-&nbsp;<br>On nerves of perpetual <br>agitation <br>edges filed and polished <br>with more care than <br>hair or teeth <br>Most used tool <br>lives in the front of the drawer <br>of the borrowed house&nbsp;<br><br>Gra-&nbsp;<br><br>Fuck it <br>Live the selfish <br>Can\u2019t hate it more <br>And at least it\u2019s honest&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Alyssa Herron<\/strong> is a writer and actor, a mom and a poor fort builder.  Her words live at www.darkyarnproductions.com.  Her inspiration for this piece:  Well-intentioned but pathetic white feminism.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#poetsfortherevolution<br \/>\nimage &#038; poem by Alyssa Herron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-feature","tag-alyssa","tag-herron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/deadweight.jpg?fit=3024%2C4032&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}