{"id":448,"date":"2019-05-19T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=448"},"modified":"2019-05-25T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T02:10:13","slug":"not-a-single-toy-in-my-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/not-a-single-toy-in-my-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Single Toy In My Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

not a single toy in my hand<\/strong><\/em> by Wizzy Dorceus<\/p>\n

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One day you\u2019re hiding in between the mattress praying for safety from the rebel group that was looking to kill daddy.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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\u201cCoup tet brule kya<\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Cut heads and burn houses, the motto of our independence lead by\u00a0 Toussaint Louverture years ago was then my reality barging through the front door.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

They\u2019ll stop at nothing to get to him, machetes as hand they seek revenge<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Under mommy\u2019s belly I laid, not making a sound<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

In that mud brick house, in the rural village, on that day.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Four years old was too young to understand<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Not a single toy in my hand<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Walked up to the building where daddy made his plans<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Day later on a \u201cplane\u201d;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Whatever that may\u00a0be… <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

to a land where daddy said we would be safe and free<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

But little did we know that was the easy part…<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

We\u2019re here now where do we start?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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(C) Wizzy Dorceus (All Rights reserved)<\/span><\/address>\n
(C) I, Too, Sing, America (Denison University)<\/span><\/address>\n
iforcolor.org – All Rights Reserved<\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

not a single toy in my hand by Wizzy Dorceus One day you\u2019re hiding in between the mattress praying for safety from the rebel group that was looking to kill daddy. \u201cCoup tet brule kya\u201d Cut heads and burn houses, the motto of our independence lead by\u00a0 Toussaint Louverture years ago was then my reality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}