{"id":4144,"date":"2021-05-22T01:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T01:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2021-05-25T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:20:26","slug":"some-poems-from-years-ago-that-i-barely-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2021\/05\/22\/some-poems-from-years-ago-that-i-barely-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Some poems from years ago that I barely remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found an old notebook with some poems in from years ago that I barely remember so here are some poems from years ago that I barely remember<\/em><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

I would quite like to be eaten once dead
\nMy body left by the side of the road
\nFor the crows and the gulls
\nTo pick clean my bones<\/p>\n

(2010<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

She sliced apart her lips
\nand I sliced open mine.
\nAnd there upon the marsh
\nwith a bloody kiss
\nwe were married in our way<\/p>\n

(6\/6\/15<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Cutting The Cord<\/strong><\/p>\n

He handed me the knife
\nand said to me
\nYou’re the mother
\nit should be you<\/p>\n

So I took it from him
\nand cut the cord
\nand let her float out
\naway across the sea<\/p>\n

(11\/11\/15<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

The children
\nin the playground
\nattack in packs
\nand devour the lonely<\/p>\n

(28\/5\/15<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

By The Station In Norwich<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steel pole fence
\nstrobing sunlight
\nand a tattered bag
\ncaught on the barbs
\ndead between the storms<\/p>\n

(29\/12\/15<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

New Year’s Morning, 2am<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you weeing on my car?
\nAre you weeing on my car?
\nHe is, you know
\nHe’s pissing on my car<\/p>\n

And then <\/p>\n

footsteps
\nquickening
\nreceding
\nthe slamming of doors
\nthe revving of engines<\/p>\n

A slow returning silence<\/p>\n

(1\/1\/16<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

I am scared
\nof the written word
\nand the unwritten
\nand the unsaid<\/p>\n

(undated<\/em>)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

And then another hundred empty pages all the way to the end of the book, which I would like to believe were an intentional part of the poem, but which obviously weren’t.<\/em><\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

1. Written between 2010 and 2016<\/em>
\n2. It’s possible the eaten once dead one has been on here before somewhere<\/em>
\n3. But the others are all new<\/em>
\n4. For whatever definition of new I’m using to describe six year old poems<\/em><\/p>\n__________<\/br>

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I just found an old notebook with some poems in from years ago that I barely remember so here are some poems from years ago that I barely remember ***** I would quite like to be eaten once dead My body left by the side of the road For the crows and the gulls To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[299,1253,191],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","tag-eaten-once-dead","tag-old-poems","tag-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}