{"id":690,"date":"2015-03-31T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=690"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:26:49","slug":"poems-of-the-month-april-2015-i-was-gezelles-maid-tuneless-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Poems of the Month, April 2015: I Was Gezelle&#8217;s Maid; Tuneless Melody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I WAS GEZELLE&#8217;S MAID<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the way he looked at me<br \/>\nwith his docile Taurus eyes<br \/>\nas if to say &#8216;If <em>you <\/em>turned round<br \/>\nI&#8217;d take you by surprise.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I love the way he spoke to me<br \/>\nin his sweet West-Flemish voice.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe he had a taste<br \/>\nfor little girls and boyce.<\/p>\n<p>I love the way he prayed for me<br \/>\nwith his nose into his bible,<br \/>\ngetting his strength from Abraham<br \/>\nwhile leaning against the table.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guido Gezelle, Flemish world poet <\/em><em>who lived in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, <\/em><em>was supposed to be a pedophile.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TUNELESS MELODY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw it on TV:<br \/>\nmilk is bad for you,<br \/>\nsugar is bad for you,<\/p>\n<p>women are bad for you<br \/>\n(too many in one day),<br \/>\neven the air is bad for you.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Japanese tourists<br \/>\nwear face masks in Bruges<br \/>\nand spread their butter thinly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a raving maniac<br \/>\nbut I do love silent breakfasts<br \/>\nuntortured by news &amp; pop songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I WAS GEZELLE&#8217;S MAID I love the way he looked at me with his docile Taurus eyes as if to [&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-690","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\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}