{"id":1046,"date":"2017-10-29T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T16:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:38:58","slug":"poem-of-the-month-november-2017-fauteuil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, November 2017: Fauteuil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAUTEUIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What did you DREAM of, Marcus,<br \/>\nin that little snap of sleep?\u2019<br \/>\n&#8216;That I danced with Vera Lynn<br \/>\nwho made the soldiers weep.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Where do you get the energy<br \/>\nfor that nightly trip to Mars?\u2019<br \/>\n&#8216;From the looks of Flemish ladies<br \/>\nI meet in downtown bars.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But what about Maria,<br \/>\nyour sweet long-suffering wife?<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t your infidelity<br \/>\ncut her heartstrings with a knife?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Oh, that is not the problem:<br \/>\nwe share a love that&#8217;s blind.<br \/>\nFor every other morning<br \/>\nwe leave that day behind.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>27 October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Friday 10 AM. I&#8217;m dreaming again.<br \/>\nI keep on thinking it&#8217;s Sunday, and<br \/>\nyou will be home from Connemara<br \/>\nthis evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAUTEUIL &#8216;What did you DREAM of, Marcus, in that little snap of sleep?\u2019 &#8216;That I danced with Vera Lynn who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}