{"id":137990732,"date":"2026-02-08T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/?p=137990732"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:09:28","slug":"another-poem-fished-out-of-the-moat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/another-poem-fished-out-of-the-moat\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Poem Fished Out of the Moat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, after I shared this among a group of poets, a friend remarked, &#8220;You get all the best spam!&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t always inspire or even rise to the level of a bizarre Mad Lib that might serve as a worn springboard over an empty urban swimming pool, but now and then, there&#8217;s a little gem.<\/p>\n<h2>Imaginary High<\/h2>\n<p>Another \u201cFound Poem\u201d \u2013 as in, I found this in my spam folder.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019ve tried a lot of brands, but these are legit the best. I go off visit united after a lengthy epoch and it just helps me depress abroad and stop overthinking everything. They leaning like actual candy no unnatural grassy flavor at all. My take a nap has been feeling bigger since I started fascinating them, too. If you\u2019re on the fence, honest fetch them! They\u2019re a total lifesaver as a remedy for my constantly stress.&#8221; <\/em> &#8212; some random spammer<\/p>\n<p><pre class=\"poem\">I've tried them all. They meld\r\nunited in their sameness.\r\nThis lengthy epoch spent abroad\r\ndepresses me. I'm overthinking\r\neverything. Everything that once was\r\nsweetness - candy - bright tang -\r\nnone of this unnatural\r\ngrassy flavor. Just natural scents\r\nof Blue Citrus #5 and the taste\r\nof artifice, of colors crafted in a lab\r\nlike lifesavers in a sea of stress.\r\nI fascinate them, too. They quiver\r\nat the touch of my tongue.\r\nMy take-a-nap feels bigger\r\nperched upon the fence - the horizon\r\nthrows an honest fetch,\r\nmy dreams, the bone.<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you missed my previous foray into the spam bucket to find poetic inspiration, see <a href=\"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/poetry-forms-challenge-2026-found-poems\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Forms Challenge 2026: \u201cFound Poems\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody said, &#8220;You get all the best spam!&#8221; Sure. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I want or need more of it. Nor does it mean any of this made it through the spam filter. No link backs for you, Spammers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137990747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2748,11],"tags":[2765,2710,2730,2725],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-137990732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-poetry","tag-found-poems","tag-found-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-27 23:33:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137990732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137990754,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137990732\/revisions\/137990754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137990747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137990732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137990732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137990732"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=137990732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}