{"id":108858,"date":"2021-02-28T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T19:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108858"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T00:38:49","slug":"terror-in-jonestown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=108858","title":{"rendered":"Terror in Jonestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the blue moon rises over the Jonestown compound<br \/>\nLethal lies<br \/>\nOf an unholy priesthood<br \/>\nOscillate, ricochet, backwards, forward<br \/>\nHe has eyes like war <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two women pass out cups of cyanide-flavored Flavour-Aide<br \/>\nI panic, I know what\u2019s next<br \/>\nMy hands tremble with fear<br \/>\nI cannot soothe my terror-ridden mind<\/p>\n<p>Death cries from the bitter jungle<br \/>\nI clench my teeth<br \/>\nMy knees turn to rubber<br \/>\nBeyond hope that words can cure his deadly mind<\/p>\n<p>I plead to God, \u201cSend an Angel to save me\u201d<br \/>\nFrom the perverse pleasures of a madman<br \/>\nA thousand screams<br \/>\nSeeking redemption<\/p>\n<p>Survival pulse<br \/>\nFrom humid heartbeats<br \/>\nI slide out of the dark<br \/>\nInto a desperate search for tomorrow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(<strong>Author&#8217;s note<\/strong>: This is a Cento Poem derived from the work of Teri Buford O\u2019Shea in her book <\/em>Jonestown Lullaby<em>. A Cento Poem is a Found Poem that patches together one line of someone else\u2019s poem to another line of another poem in sequence to make a new poem. I changed some verb tenses to make them consistent, inserted the word \u201cHe\u201d in line 5 and the word \u201ccannot\u201d in line 9.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: Linda Kime became fascinated with Jonestown when she heard Leslie Wagner-Wilson speak at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Phoenix in 2019. Linda lives in L.A. and writes screenplays, children\u2019s books and speeches for Toastmasters.\u00a0Her other contribution to this site is <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=109975\">The Jonestown Odes<\/a>. She can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:timeforarticles@yahoo.com\">timeforarticles@yahoo.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the blue moon rises over the Jonestown compound Lethal lies Of an unholy priesthood Oscillate, ricochet, backwards, forward He has eyes like war Two women pass out cups of cyanide-flavored Flavour-Aide I panic, I know what\u2019s next My hands tremble with fear I cannot soothe my terror-ridden mind Death cries from the bitter jungle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":111220,"menu_order":44,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109978,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108858\/revisions\/109978"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}