{"id":3070,"date":"2017-04-28T11:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:26:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:26:48","slug":"sweet-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2017\/04\/28\/sweet-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Snowy scales and cages brown.<\/li>\n
  2. Hungry mouths, all chained and drowned.<\/li>\n
  3. Plants at war don’t trickle down.<\/li>\n
  4. Badges blue: the goons of crown.<\/li>\n
  5. Lipsticked pigs in tux and gown<\/li>\n
  6. Eat the trash, and own the town,<\/li>\n
  7. Whip the slaves for buck and pound,<\/li>\n
  8. Burn the trees, and suck the ground.<\/li>\n
  9. Rainbow pins but silent sound.<\/li>\n
  10. Fight the man, erase the brown.<\/li>\n
  11. Stand together, gender bound<\/li>\n
  12. Well, until the junk is found.<\/li>\n
  13. Break the scales, the cages free.<\/li>\n
  14. Feed the mouths, fished from the sea.<\/li>\n
  15. Grow the plants, the bacon squee.<\/li>\n
  16. Steal the whips, make masters plea,<\/li>\n
  17. Flip\u00a0their trough, and smash their peace.<\/li>\n
  18. Guard the ground, protect the trees.<\/li>\n
  19. Rainbows strong, together we<\/li>\n
  20. Fight the man, the brown now see.<\/li>\n
  21. Now\u00a0to act, time\u2019s passed for speech.<\/li>\n
  22. Bring across and help\u00a0them pee.<\/li>\n
  23. Bell has rung, now class will flee.<\/li>\n
  24. Time to take sweet liberty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Snowy scales and cages brown. Hungry mouths, all chained and drowned. Plants at war don’t trickle down. Badges blue: the goons of crown. Lipsticked pigs in tux and gown Eat the trash, and own the town, Whip the slaves for buck and pound, Burn the trees, and suck the ground. Rainbow pins but silent sound. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/08\/anarchy-8265_1920.jpg?fit=1574%2C1050&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-Nw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3056,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2011\/10\/09\/ode-to-mary\/","url_meta":{"origin":3070,"position":0},"title":"Ode to Mary","author":"Kim Siever","date":"9 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Honey sweet, cotton soft, Snowy fair, mountain top, Ocean blue, angel song, Evening still, sunset long. 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