{"id":1143,"date":"2026-11-01T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:45:29","slug":"breakup-poem-by-shontay-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2026\/11\/01\/breakup-poem-by-shontay-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breakup Poem&#8221; by Shontay Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>He smiled through his<br>tombstones and lied.<br>And the hum fell to<br>pieces. The pictures of<br>the left hand wife forever<br>etched in her mind. She<br>had enough of his<br>hornswoggling one too<br>many times for her liking.<br>Pain &amp; anger zooning in<br>her head, what came next<br>was like lickin\u2019 butter off a<br>knife. Out and out, to make<br>tracks. Refusing to spend<br>the shank of her life in a<br>whomped-jawed marriage.<br>And so he is left, stewing<br>in his own juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Shontay Luna is a lifelong Chicagoan whose love of language parlayed into the realm of period slang three years ago. After finishing a book in 1920&#8217;s through 1940&#8217;s slang, she developed a curiosity of other realms. In addition to poetry, she loves writing Sons of Anarchy fanfiction, stickers and coupons.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He smiled through histombstones and lied.And the hum fell topieces. The pictures ofthe left hand wife foreveretched in her mind. Shehad enough of hishornswoggling one toomany times for her liking.Pain &amp; anger zooning inher head, what came nextwas like lickin\u2019 butter off aknife. Out and out, to maketracks. Refusing to spendthe shank of her life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2026\/11\/01\/breakup-poem-by-shontay-luna\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/yuvraj-singh-pHj23cFO1hg-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}