{"id":176461546,"date":"2015-11-06T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T08:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176461546"},"modified":"2015-11-06T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T08:01:07","slug":"poetry-yes-im-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2015\/11\/06\/poetry-yes-im-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY: YES, I’M AFRAID"},"content":{"rendered":"

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photo by Alex Lear<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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yes, i’m afraid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

i am so serious abt this<\/span><\/p>\n

my eyeballs vibrate w\/h each heartbeat<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

when i go to you, you do not know all<\/span><\/p>\n

the history i carry in my open hands<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to kiss you i must drop my shield<\/span><\/p>\n

to embrace you i must let myself go<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

will you blow your nose on my smile<\/span><\/p>\n

and toss it aside like a soiled tissue?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

i am so serious abt this<\/span><\/p>\n

i am embarrassed<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

please don’t laugh<\/span><\/p>\n

at me<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014kalamu ya salaam<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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      yes, i’m afraid \u00a0 i am so serious abt this my eyeballs vibrate w\/h each heartbeat \u00a0 when i go to you, you do not know all the history i carry in my open hands \u00a0 to kiss you i must drop my shield to embrace you i must let myself go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176461546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176461546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176461546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176461548,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176461546\/revisions\/176461548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176461546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176461546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176461546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}