{"id":2636,"date":"2022-05-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T10:07:29","slug":"blackbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/2022\/05\/blackbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Author<\/strong>: Rodrigo Koller<\/p>\n\n\n<p>there\u2019s a blackbird at my window<\/p>\n<p>that wants to get in<\/p>\n<p>but the glass is too thick for him.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>there\u2019s a blackbird at my window<\/p>\n<p>that wants to get in,<\/p>\n<p>spreading its wings and screaming my name,<\/p>\n<p>demanding I let him in<\/p>\n<p>but the monsters inside are too cruel for him.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I tell him<\/p>\n<p>Stay out,<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t you wanna live<\/p>\n<p>and die at war under the sun?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>there\u2019s a blackbird at my window<\/p>\n<p>that keeps crashing its beak against my heart<\/p>\n<p>hoping to crack it one day<\/p>\n<p>but I\u2019m too tough for him.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I tell him<\/p>\n<p>Do you wanna tear me up?<\/p>\n<p>tear my insides out for the world to see?<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t let you get in<\/p>\n<p>I will just stay at your form until you die<\/p>\n<p>and leave your body there<\/p>\n<p>so no bird comes to scar me again.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>but at night sometimes<\/p>\n<p>when he can\u2019t no more<\/p>\n<p>he sings a little,<\/p>\n<p>and it\u2019s enough to pierce the glass<\/p>\n<p>and make me sob a little.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>and I forget the walls I\u2019ve made<\/p>\n<p>so women don\u2019t see my heart,<\/p>\n<p>and there I am again<\/p>\n<p>my insides torn apart,<\/p>\n<p>my soul singing and bleeding.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Rodrigo Koller there\u2019s a blackbird at my window that wants to get in but the glass is too thick for him. there\u2019s a blackbird at my window that wants to get in, spreading its wings and screaming my name, demanding I let him in but the monsters inside are too cruel for him. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2022-spring","7":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/musemagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}