{"id":15214,"date":"2023-05-12T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T08:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2023-05-12T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T08:13:46","slug":"poetry-haley-hodges-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/poetry-haley-hodges-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Haley Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Belshazzar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I never knew myself to have a Persian beard, now,<br \/>\nThis is odd, this will need some explanation<br \/>\nSo too the crown and concubines and all these<br \/>\nHalf-drunk vessels from the house of God<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t it 2023 or 2022\u2014was I not, just now,<br \/>\nPulling up in a Subaru or whatever it is I<br \/>\nGet myself around in? In fact I\u2019m quite certain<br \/>\nMy father was born in 1959 and hardly Nebuchadnezzar,<br \/>\nThough it is his second term as village president<br \/>\n(He ran unopposed this time) for the Most High God<br \/>\nSet him over it. TEKEL<\/p>\n<p>Says the writing on the wall of my lordly mind, haunting,<br \/>\nTEKEL\u2014you have been weighed in the balance<br \/>\nAnd found wanting<\/p>\n<p>God I am always wanting<br \/>\nWanting wanting wanting I am<br \/>\nAlways wanting in or out of the balance,<br \/>\nAnd there is no wisdom in these Chaldeans<br \/>\nI have summoned to advise me, these useless<br \/>\nFuckwitted Chaldeans with parlor tricks who break<br \/>\nMy words with sticks and hurt me thus. How many more,<br \/>\n(I wonder!!) how many more misdeeds before my kingdom<br \/>\nIs divided, and given to the Medes?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: <span class=\"mw-mmv-title\"><a title=\"Rembrandt\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rembrandt\">Rembrandt<\/a>&#8216;s depiction of the biblical account of Belshazzar seeing &#8220;<a title=\"Belshazzar's feast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belshazzar%27s_feast\">the writing on the wall<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belshazzar I never knew myself to have a Persian beard, now, This is odd, this will need some explanation So too the crown and concubines and all these Half-drunk vessels from the house of God Isn\u2019t it 2023 or 2022\u2014was I not, just now, Pulling up in a Subaru or whatever it is I Get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":15250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[892,893,894,3935,3942,3949,3950,3951,4124,7341],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-belshazzar","tag-belshazzar-haley-hodges","tag-belshazzar-poem","tag-haley","tag-haley-hodges-cassandra-voices","tag-haley-hodges-poem","tag-haley-hodges-poet","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-hodges","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}