{"id":242,"date":"1986-08-08T13:27:37","date_gmt":"1986-08-08T20:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:09:40","slug":"inside-the-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/08\/08\/inside-the-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking out upon a world<br \/>\nSmitten with grief and fear and war;<br \/>\nAnd seeing the poor man on the street,<br \/>\nWith the Times for a blanket<br \/>\nAnd garbage to eat,<br \/>\nAnd seeing and seeing, but that&#8217;s all.<br \/>\nPerhaps fearing and hoping<br \/>\nMy lot was not there,<br \/>\nAnd reassuring myself &#8211;<br \/>\nThe chances are small.<\/p>\n<p>Every day I look on a world,<br \/>\nThat can fill a bum&#8217;s blanket<br \/>\nFrom cover to cover,<br \/>\nWith the horror, some truths,<br \/>\nThe lives and the deaths.<br \/>\nBut a death a day keeps the sales OK,<br \/>\nAs long as the daily death is about<br \/>\nSomeone else.<br \/>\n(Death should be read about,<br \/>\nBut not seen &#8211; and never faced.)<\/p>\n<p>And I think of a death<br \/>\nAnd I think of a tomb,<br \/>\nBut why should it scare me?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve nothing to lose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking out upon a world<br \/> Smitten with grief and fear and war;<br \/> And seeing the poor man on the street,<br \/> With the Times for a blanket<br \/> And garbage to eat,<br \/> And seeing and seeing, but that&#8217;s all.<br \/> Perhaps fearing and hoping<br \/> My lot was not there,<br \/> And reassuring myself &#8211;<br \/> The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}