{"id":5855,"date":"2020-02-19T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:19:34","slug":"howie-good-martyrdom-of-a-curmudgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=5855","title":{"rendered":"Howie Good &#8220;Martyrdom of a Curmudgeon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Howie Good<\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 30px;\">Martyrdom of a Curmudgeon<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>What a sight<br \/>\nit would be,<br \/>\nme, with my heart<br \/>\nplucked out<br \/>\nof my body,<\/p>\n<p>still managing<br \/>\nsomehow to say,<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s just 11 ounces,<br \/>\nyou morons,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>before feral youth<br \/>\ncoldly scratch<br \/>\ntheir names<br \/>\nand affiliations<br \/>\nall over it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Howie Good <\/strong><\/span><em>is the author of most recently of <\/em>Stick Figure Opera<em> from Cajun Mutt Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Good Martyrdom of a Curmudgeon What a sight it would be, me, with my heart plucked out of my body, still managing somehow to say, \u201cIt\u2019s just 11 ounces, you morons,\u201d before feral youth coldly scratch their names and affiliations all over it. 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