{"id":5762,"date":"2019-12-26T19:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T01:37:41","slug":"pushcart-nominee-2019-steve-klepetar-on-the-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5762","title":{"rendered":"Pushcart Nominee 2019: Steve Klepetar &#8220;On the Platform&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Pushcart Nominee 2019<\/em><\/h3>\n<h1>Steve Klepetar<\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">On the Platform<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The train was late, so we stood on the platform<br \/>\nstaring down the track into darkness,<br \/>\nand my father said<br \/>\n\u201cDon\u2019t wish your life away,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>said it with a slight smile, a little joke,<br \/>\na little wisdom I could have for free<\/p>\n<p>as I walked down to the far end and back<br \/>\njust to feel my legs move, shake off the weight<br \/>\nof doing nothing, and then the train roared in<\/p>\n<p>and we\u2019re riding into night,<br \/>\nrain beating against the windows,<br \/>\nthickening, turning to snow as we travel west.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Steve Klepetar<\/strong><\/span> has cancelled his trip to Canada because they won&#8217;t let him buy Nova Scotia.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushcart Nominee 2019 Steve Klepetar On the Platform The train was late, so we stood on the platform staring down the track into darkness, and my father said \u201cDon\u2019t wish your life away,\u201d said it with a slight smile, a little joke, a little wisdom I could have for free as I walked down to [&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":[589,231],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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