{"id":5075,"date":"2018-12-27T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2018-12-22T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:25:26","slug":"lgregoryseries-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5075","title":{"rendered":"Alan Toltzis\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Beggars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>2 of 5 in a series<\/pre>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Alan Toltzis\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Beggars<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Habit taught them greed<br \/>\ngulping at food\u2019s satisfying promise<br \/>\nwhenever I neared<br \/>\nsending shadows across the surface<br \/>\nthat drew their pleading lips<br \/>\ninto the alien air asking<br \/>\nmore, more, more.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Alan Toltzis <\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<\/span><\/em><\/span><em><a class=\"sbm-text link link-color accessible-link\" href=\"http:\/\/alantoltzis.com\/\" target=\"linked\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alantoltzis.com<\/a>), the author of <\/em>49 Aspects of Human Emotions<em> and <\/em>The Last Commandment, <em>had a lovely goldfish pond once upon a time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 of 5 in a series Alan Toltzis\u00a0 Beggars Habit taught them greed gulping at food\u2019s satisfying promise whenever I neared sending shadows across the surface that drew their pleading lips into the alien air asking more, more, more. 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