{"id":1782,"date":"2015-08-26T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2015-07-27T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:30:33","slug":"deonte-osayande-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Deonte Osayande: &#8220;Traffic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 title=\"Traffic and Other Poems - Deonte Osayande\">Deonte Osayande<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Traffic<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"tx\">The other cars on the road<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">cut us off, forcing<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">the awkward silence<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">associated with the wait<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">in the cab longer than expected<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">which prompts the driver<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">to ask what kind of people<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">we&#8217;d be interested in<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">buying<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">if he were selling<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx\">and this wasn&#8217;t just<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"tx f176\">\u201can odd hypothetical\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"note-text\"><strong>Deonte Osayande<\/strong> is a writer, instructor and former sprinter from Detroit, Michigan.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deonte Osayande Traffic The other cars on the road cut us off, forcing the awkward silence associated with the wait in the cab longer than expected which prompts the driver to ask what kind of people we&#8217;d be interested in buying if he were selling and this wasn&#8217;t just \u201can odd hypothetical\u201d.\u00a0 Deonte Osayande is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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