{"id":563,"date":"2022-02-25T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/?page_id=563"},"modified":"2022-03-01T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T04:43:19","slug":"sarah-yazdi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/sarah-yazdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Yazdi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Womb<\/h3>\n<p>From city to city,<br \/>\nOne school to another<br \/>\nI miss my old house<br \/>\nI miss my real mother<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s quite rare to fit in<br \/>\nEven more rare that I try<br \/>\nWhy bother getting comfy<br \/>\nJust to up &#038; say goodbye<br \/>\nSadly, this story is far from unique<br \/>\nMost wards of the state&#8217;s lives<br \/>\nare also this Bleak<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s one thing that held me,<br \/>\nKept me tethered to Reality.<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s the escape of Reading<br \/>\nScience fiction (Ironically)<br \/>\nWherever that rude social worker placed me<br \/>\nMy real home could Always<br \/>\nBe found in my pages<br \/>\nA poem to dry each lonely tear,<br \/>\nA new fairytale to distract from Rages<br \/>\nSo so much yet to be done on the system<br \/>\nFor the prevention of innocents<br \/>\nLiving as victims<br \/>\nWe must all band together against<br \/>\nGovernment crooks. Let&#8217;s start<br \/>\nIn Texas. Get your paws off our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BOOKS<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\" align=\"center\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a class=\"previous-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/visual-art\/john-romanski\/\">Previous<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"next-button\" href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/john-stifler\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Womb From city to city, One school to another I miss my old house I miss my real mother It&#8217;s quite rare to fit in Even more rare that I try Why bother getting comfy Just to up &#038; say goodbye Sadly, this story is far from unique Most wards of the state&#8217;s lives are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/prose-poetry\/sarah-yazdi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sarah Yazdi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions\/1019"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\/exhibit2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}