{"id":1318,"date":"2025-02-25T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:59:54","slug":"words-i-dont-want-dont-know-how-to-say-roughest-of-drafts-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"words I don&#8217;t want (don&#8217;t know how) to say-roughest of drafts, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WORDS I DON&#8217;T WANT TO SAY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words I don\u2019t want to repeat, a history<br \/>\nof words extinguished from sentences,<br \/>\nfrom texts. Names I don\u2019t want to name.<br \/>\nVoices I don\u2019t want to hear. A cacophony<br \/>\nof lies, a collage of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning.There was a beginning.<br \/>\nThis is the end. (There will never be an end.)<br \/>\nThe middle, the bulge, the bloat.God grant<br \/>\nme\u2026I lay me down. Jesus is a Jew.<br \/>\nHypocrites. Jesus Is not white. Hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>America. Make it great. Not again. Now.<br \/>\nAnyone who is old(er), who is wise(er) who<br \/>\nknows time is parallel is vertical, not<br \/>\na timeline, or progression. Layer atop layer.<br \/>\nRepeat. Same ol\u2019 same ol\u2019. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Gut My Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awareness is a version of verse<br \/>\nearned, volumes of conversation.<br \/>\nResearch.<br \/>\nLife-long education. Yet a voice<br \/>\ncarries only a witness of who<br \/>\nI am, carries my gut, my heart,<br \/>\nmy interpretation&#8211;if it is other-<br \/>\nwise a book holds no truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, John F: assassination.<br \/>\n\tAt 13.  I only wanted<br \/>\n        to be Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>King, Martin Luther: assassination.<br \/>\n\tI learned religion couldn\u2019t<br \/>\n\tsave me, couldn\u2019t save the girl<br \/>\n\twho was a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, Lyndon \/LBJ: Southerner<br \/>\n\tAlbeit, champion of my Northern<br \/>\n\tcivil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, Jimmy:  peanut farmer a-<br \/>\n\tpolitical (almost)<br \/>\n\tbuilder; lover.<\/p>\n<p>Two Bushes and a Regan.<\/p>\n<p>Obama, Barack, Michelle.<br \/>\n        I heart.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, Joe: place holder.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, Donald: puppet or king?<\/p>\n<p>I write. Poetry. Because<br \/>\nthat\u2019s what I know to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORDS I DON&#8217;T WANT TO SAY. Words I don\u2019t want to repeat, a history of words extinguished from sentences, from texts. Names I don\u2019t want to name. Voices I don\u2019t want to hear. A cacophony of lies, a collage of misinformation. In the beginning.There was a beginning. This is the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=1318\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rough-drafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}