{"id":520,"date":"2026-10-14T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=520"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:39:24","slug":"its-not-going-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/its-not-going-well\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Going Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a>It\u2019s not going well<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">comes down,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">separating us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">people adrift<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ocean. &nbsp;I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">raise my<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">face to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the downpour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">hoping it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">will wash<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">you from<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I spit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">out the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sea and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">rinse you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from my<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mouth with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">rain.&nbsp; I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">close my<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">eyes against<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the pellets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">hoping that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">open them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">again, you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">will be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Blue Lake Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sept 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not going well The rain comes down, separating us like two people adrift in the ocean. &nbsp;I raise my face to the downpour hoping it will wash you from my mind. I spit out the sea and rinse you from my mouth with rain.&nbsp; I close my eyes against the pellets of rain hoping&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/its-not-going-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Not Going Well<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}