{"id":1381,"date":"2010-01-19T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2010-01-19T19:27:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T03:27:47","slug":"the-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/the-butcher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A little boy runs<br \/>\nThrough a crowded market place<br \/>\nHis arms held out<br \/>\nAs he weaves between all the people<br \/>\nA little toy airplane<br \/>\nHeld tight in his outstretched hand<br \/>\nHe runs along<br \/>\nWith a smile plastered on his face<br \/>\nMaking airplane noises<br \/>\nAll around him is the sound<br \/>\nOf a society<br \/>\nPerpetually on the move<br \/>\nHaggling, arguing<br \/>\nAgreeing, thanking<br \/>\nAll the mouths moving<br \/>\nAs they converse amongst each other<br \/>\nThe boy hears a loud noise<br \/>\nHe slows as he runs<br \/>\nIt alone stands out<br \/>\nOne noise in a world of clatter<br \/>\nIt rings in his ears<br \/>\nFinally he stops<br \/>\nAs the pounding noise<br \/>\nIs right in front of him<br \/>\nLooking at the market stall<br \/>\nPlaced before him<br \/>\nA butcher stands<br \/>\nA meat cleaver in one hand<br \/>\nHumming happily<br \/>\nAs he chops into the meat<br \/>\nOf an animals dead corpse<br \/>\nThe crack of bones<br \/>\nAs the metal crushes<br \/>\nThe animal\u2019s dead body<br \/>\nCrack crack crack<br \/>\nIt echoes in the boys ears<br \/>\nAs the butcher wedges the knife<br \/>\nOut of the cutting board<br \/>\nOut of the pile of pulverized meat<br \/>\nThe butcher wipes the blood<br \/>\nOn his white apron<br \/>\nLaughing as he notices the boy<br \/>\nStanding there motionless<br \/>\nHis arms dangling limp<br \/>\nAt his sides<br \/>\nThe butcher brings the cleaver down<br \/>\nAgain and again<br \/>\nThe boy flinches each time<br \/>\nFollowing each little movement<br \/>\nWith eyes wide<br \/>\nHands gripping tightly onto<br \/>\nThe little toy airplane<br \/>\nThe butcher spits to the side<br \/>\nAnd looks down his nose<br \/>\nAt the small innocent boy<br \/>\nHe snorts again<br \/>\n<em> You wanna try kid?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s fun<\/em><br \/>\nHe holds out the cleaver<br \/>\nStained in blood<br \/>\nThe little boy drops the toy<br \/>\nAnd steps forward<br \/>\nOut of his old world<br \/>\nAnd into a new one<br \/>\nAs he grabs onto the knife<br \/>\nTo big for his tiny hands<br \/>\nThe forgotten toy sits on the ground<br \/>\nIt is crushed beneath the crowd<br \/>\nAs it moves forward<br \/>\nAlways moving<br \/>\nThe boy doesn\u2019t notice<br \/>\nThe crack of bones resounds<br \/>\nEchoing into a crowd that doesn\u2019t listen<br \/>\nAnd doesn\u2019t care<br \/>\nExcept for the little crushed airplane toy<br \/>\nThat lays broken and forgotten<br \/>\nAs a boy walks away from innocence<br \/>\nInto a world of blood<br \/>\nAs the cleaver falls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little boy runs Through a crowded market place His arms held out As he weaves between all the people A little toy airplane Held tight in his outstretched hand He runs along With a smile plastered on his face Making airplane noises All around him is the sound Of a society Perpetually on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[738,116,739,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}