{"id":4665,"date":"2024-04-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:12:44","slug":"after-camonghne-felixs-lost-poem-rx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/after-camonghne-felixs-lost-poem-rx\/","title":{"rendered":"After Camonghne Felix\u2019s \u201cLost Poem RX\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The stranger across the street<br><em>Asks me if I want to die, and I say<\/em><br>Only if it is a happy death<br>If I were to die now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not worried about<br>missing out on my first drink<br>being able to rent cars<br>owning my first house<br>or waiting to turn 65<br>for the chance to retire<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, my heart yearns<br>for the day it stops beating<br>It is indeed a burning<br><em>Choice out of desire<\/em><br>but I am not running<br>towards death. It must come to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when that day<br>is near arrival<br>Do not ask me to keep<br>fighting. I am taking the<br>passageway that leads to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>my ancestors,<br>answers how<br>the Egyptians built<br>the Pyramids, and crafts a<br>body that knows no Illness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to know how are we so<br><em>Compatible with death<\/em><br>The secret lies in \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the syntax<br>Written in the code of<br>life: God&#8217;s program for humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stranger across the streetAsks me if I want to die, and I sayOnly if it is a happy deathIf I were to die now I\u2019m not worried aboutmissing out on my first drinkbeing able to rent carsowning my first houseor waiting to turn 65for the chance to retire Yes, my heart yearnsfor the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"art_contributors":[],"literary_contributors":[360],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","literary_contributors-dunn-cristian"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/L1030426_copy-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"art_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/art_contributors?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"literary_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusliterary.com\/2024-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_contributors?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}