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The scrappers will show.<br \/>\nThe course is long and designed as unending.<br \/>\nThe bending of rules is assumed.<br \/>\nThere is nothing here within to survive the great without.<br \/>\nBreath is an adventure the living assume.<br \/>\nNothing says the door cannot come down and end the play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive staircase to minimum space. Shuttling between orbits of gum. Sticking to the outside of the inside pages. Words pink and puckered by habit. There is no recourse to history&#8217;s racecourse. The favorites will win. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=863\">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":[3,4],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":912,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=912","url_meta":{"origin":863,"position":0},"title":"Father&#8217;s Day","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Fathers' Day. The hours melt away. Only two more left to sell these cards. Door to door we'll go, knocking, don't you know, selling reminiscence and its shards. And it's Daddy, Daddy-Oh. How I love you, head to toe. 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