{"id":1653,"date":"2020-03-17T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T16:50:00","slug":"mule-train-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Mule Train 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I see in my head is a mule train for the dead<\/p>\n

and the dying crying out along the road.<\/div>\n
Some near-dead jump aboard, they want to see the lord,<\/div>\n
without the strength\u00a0to\u00a0handle their big load.<\/div>\n
All roads lead to the sea, a quarantined country;<\/div>\n
we’re trapped within the land where we were born.<\/div>\n
No Germans, now, but germs, completely different terms,<\/div>\n
and now we are defeated and forlorn.<\/div>\n
One day in time there will be a revival,<\/div>\n
a new race who somehow mastered survival.<\/div>\n
Some hid in airless tombs or found some sterile rooms.<\/div>\n
Perhaps there was a commune way up north.<\/div>\n
The old world’s gone away, swept out by viral blooms.<\/div>\n
And from the cave the new world ventures forth.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What I see in my head is a mule train for the dead and the dying crying out along the road. Some near-dead jump aboard, they want to see the lord, without the strength\u00a0to\u00a0handle their big load. All roads lead to the sea, a quarantined country; we’re trapped within the land where we were born. 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