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You are unbowed.<br \/>\nAnd though the book has changed, it still needs rewriting.<br \/>\nYou hold the pen and ink. Now come out fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your receipt for all the whippings you took back in a former life, when you lived by the book. Yes, it is hard to relive pained memories. But harder yet is to walk on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=947\">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-947","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":935,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=935","url_meta":{"origin":947,"position":0},"title":"Pocket Watchtower","author":"Rick Young","date":"September 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Part time pyramids float in the moonlight, a sacrifice to geometric gods. I walk the wicker bridge but things don't seem right. I dream of making it despite the odds. 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