{"id":4445,"date":"2018-07-16T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/HatchetOnline\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2024-08-16T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:07:04","slug":"it-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/it-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"It Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

First published in November\/December, 2008, Volume 5, Issue 4, The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nBorn a monster spewed from hell<\/span><\/p>\n

With horns and a serrated tail<\/span><\/p>\n

Lusting for a maiden\u2019s virgin blood<\/span><\/p>\n

It hides beneath the shit and mud<\/span><\/p>\n

Reaching up to pull her down<\/span><\/p>\n

Her screaming plea a mournful sound<\/span><\/p>\n

It looks deep into her eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels some pity for her cries<\/span><\/p>\n

If only it could hold her in its arms<\/span><\/p>\n

Seduce her with a smile that charms<\/span><\/p>\n

It longs to kiss her, stroke her hair<\/span><\/p>\n

To cradle her within its lair<\/span><\/p>\n

Only dreams for such as it<\/span><\/p>\n

What it is, it can\u2019t forget<\/span><\/p>\n

A demon knowing nothing of love<\/span><\/p>\n

That hunts beneath the world above<\/span><\/p>\n

And when its lust has been fulfilled<\/span><\/p>\n

It must devour what it has killed<\/span><\/p>\n

Remorse and pain thy be its name<\/span><\/p>\n

To slink away in hateful shame<\/span><\/p>\n

Those eyes that begged for her life<\/span><\/p>\n

Haunting desires for home and wife\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It licks her blood from savage fangs\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Condemned to live its murderous reign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scary poem by Aurora Lewis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/hatchetonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}