Walking out in the evening
\nwe saw a group of neighbors
\nnot from our block
\nbut not far off
\nstanding much too close.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019m not a member of the grammar police
\nthough I am a champion of Oxford commas
\nbut would never mention their lack
\nbecause really, does it matter?<\/p>\n
Unless you\u2019re a Koala and don\u2019t want But I wanted to call out and explain And all the way home Or just apathy.<\/p>\n What it told me was something different, <\/a>* https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Walking out in the evening we saw a group of neighbors not from our block but not far off standing much too close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":5867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\npeople to think you\u2019re
\nfleeing from gunplay
\nand not paying for your meal.*<\/a><\/p>\n
\nthat standing apart
\nwas how we keep everything
\nfrom going to pieces.<\/p>\n
\nI wanted to know
\nif not saying anything
\nwas prudence or cowardice.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m afraid
\nI\u2019m afraid
\nI\u2019m afraid
\nI\u2019m afraid<\/p>\n
\n