{"id":8074,"date":"2024-02-19T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethelliottpoetry.com\/stage\/?p=8074"},"modified":"2024-02-19T04:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T04:39:06","slug":"scorpion-dont-starve-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethelliottpoetry.com\/stage\/scorpion-dont-starve-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorpion, Don&#8217;t Starve Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group poem-block\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scorpion, Don&#8217;t Starve Here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweeping blown leaves, dark scorpion<br>was caught making for the terrace sill,<br>he turned to skitter back across the kitchen floor,<br>heading for the shelter of the inner hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, not here!<br>Better to be snapped in a saber beak,<br>to vanish into change<br>than to starve here,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in this place so clean, well lighted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scorpion, Don&#8217;t Starve Here Sweeping blown leaves, dark scorpionwas caught making for the terrace sill,he turned to skitter back across the kitchen floor,heading for the shelter of the inner hall. 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