{"id":198,"date":"2006-06-21T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/21\/the-lost-poem\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T09:16:05","slug":"the-lost-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/21\/the-lost-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The words haunt me<br \/>\nlike a tune that  tickles<br \/>\nthe back of your eyes<br \/>\nuntil you can&#8217;t see anything<br \/>\nbut little cartoon guys<!--more--><br \/>\ndancing on the hood of the car<br \/>\nand you are supposed to be driving<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I said it two days ago<br \/>\nwhile we were driving<br \/>\nor walking or eating<br \/>\nno I think walking<br \/>\nit was something<br \/>\nthat came up in the conversation<br \/>\nsome incredibly cool<br \/>\nrich idea that spread itself<br \/>\nout for me<br \/>\nimages symbols textures<br \/>\nI could feel it like<br \/>\nturkey stuffing steaming<br \/>\npungent in a tureen<br \/>\nsaying <em>eat me<br \/>\n<\/em>I want you to<br \/>\nmy mother says<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all right<br \/>\nyou can do<br \/>\nwhatever you want<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take off my clothes<br \/>\nlook \u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s gone<br \/>\nlike a bubble<br \/>\nfrom a soapy loop<br \/>\nlike a dead puppy<br \/>\na torn fingernail<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I shoulda writtten it down<br \/>\nI have a little notebook<br \/>\nI bought for that<br \/>\neventuality<br \/>\nand a pen too<br \/>\nAnd the little<br \/>\nnotebook is<br \/>\na reporter&#8217;s notebook as<br \/>\nfavoured by Hemingway<br \/>\nand Picasso I think it said<br \/>\nbut I didn&#8217;t have it<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s why I am<br \/>\ngiving you this note<br \/>\nto explain why<br \/>\nthis homework<br \/>\nis not done<br \/>\nokay?<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s something I should write a poem about The words haunt me like a tune that tickles the back of your eyes until you can&#8217;t see anything but little cartoon guys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}