{"id":28762,"date":"2015-11-17T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=28762"},"modified":"2015-11-23T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:56:02","slug":"confusion-for-lindsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/confusion-for-lindsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;Confusion (For Lindsey)&#8221;  by Klare Annette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\">Confusion (For Lindsey)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Confused1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Confused1.jpg?resize=600%2C419\" alt=\"Confused1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Confused1.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Confused1.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I don\u2019t deserve this punishment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> But there is no escape<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> I used to bounce around this town<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Like pixies on cocaine<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> But then confusion found me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Across its doorstep sprawled<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> It welcomed me with open arms<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Into its life I crawled<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> My sadness is an illness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> That only lets me cry<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Infuriating anger<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Has stole my will to try<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> So I stay here with confusion<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> And ask \u201cWhere did I go?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> It replies with \u201cWhere is she?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"> Confusion doesn\u2019t know<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino,serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">~Klare Annette<\/span><\/em> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ImTiredOfMe.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ImTiredOfMe.jpg?resize=600%2C114\" alt=\"I'mTiredOfMe\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ImTiredOfMe.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ImTiredOfMe.jpg?resize=300%2C57&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion (For Lindsey) I don\u2019t deserve this punishment But there is no escape I used to bounce around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":29134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[7078,4782],"class_list":["post-28762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-writing","tag-creative-writing","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Klare1.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}