{"id":2258,"date":"2020-11-22T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T00:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2020-11-29T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T16:04:51","slug":"his-many-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"His Many Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Satan at my polling place.<br \/>\nHe had horns and all,<br \/>\nbut he had Jared&#8217;s face.<br \/>\nWearing a nice suit,<br \/>\nhe looked quite tall and pale.<br \/>\nBut, looking down beneath his cuffs,<br \/>\nI know I saw some tail.<br \/>\nAnd when I went to vote,<br \/>\nhe quickly stepped right up to me,<br \/>\nsaid, &#8220;How &#8217;bout a vacation<br \/>\nin the lovely heat for free?&#8221;<br \/>\nAll I had to do was vote<br \/>\nagainst all of the Dems,<br \/>\nand I could see the fire flowers&#8217;<br \/>\never-burning stems,<br \/>\nswim the sizzling lake<br \/>\nand learn to walk on burning coals.<br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t think the devil<br \/>\nshould be allowed at the polls.<br \/>\nSo I said, &#8220;No thanks, Satan,&#8221;<br \/>\nand I stepped behind the curtain.<br \/>\nHe was screaming he would<br \/>\nmake my soul explode for certain.<br \/>\nI exited, expecting to see<br \/>\nmany things I feared.<br \/>\nTo my relief, there was no grief.<br \/>\nJared had disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Satan at my polling place. He had horns and all, but he had Jared&#8217;s face. Wearing a nice suit, he looked quite tall and pale. But, looking down beneath his cuffs, I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2258\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":736,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=736","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":0},"title":"The Ballot of Boot Hell","author":"Rick Young","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The modern world creaks to a halt. The sun, frozen, leans toward darkness. Apocalypse, now a presumption, a former abstraction, demands a reaction, and the people must vote it down. Across the oceans, our enemies amass. They must be placed in words and categories. Survival is dependent on proper identification.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2220,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2220","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":1},"title":"Gory Story","author":"Rick Young","date":"November 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we learned of RINO's and dead dogs at the polls. Apparently all zombies weren't removed from voter rolls. A dog did vote beside me. He'd a coat of rusty red. I saw him vote straight Dem but didn't know that he was dead. And what about that chicken who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":700,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=700","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":2},"title":"MADD as Hell","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"He elbowed his way up to the bar and said, \"Bartender, can I have a coke?\" He wore a suit of crimson like a star and said, \"Excuse me, can I bum a smoke?\" I seemed to recognize him and he acted like a friend. I felt that we'd grow\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2534,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2534","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":3},"title":"Unfinished Poet","author":"Rick Young","date":"August 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The unfinished poet never learned to cross his tees. One never knew if they were ells or was it meant to tease. Sometimes subbed stars for vowels or used periods as names. His sentences only made sense if registered as games. He'd run awhile with sections vastly overrun\u00a0with rhyme, then\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":848,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=848","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":4},"title":"Bannon Canon","author":"Rick Young","date":"February 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Steve Bannon is the sludge in my liver. If bad was teardrops, he would be a river. Every time I think about his Breitbart News, I get a sudden bad attack of alt-right blues. Says he idolizes Satan, Vader and Dick Cheney. This is more than odd, dude, it's apocalyptic\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1535","url_meta":{"origin":2258,"position":5},"title":"His Due","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Satan sleeps down by my feet. I think he likes the smell. When not awake, he's pretty sweet. But roused, he's really hell. Get up and sin, get up and kill, he'll shout throughout the house. I tell him to shut up and chill. I couldn't hurt a mouse. At\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Poem&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Poem","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}