{"id":2624,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2624"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"in-my-memory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/in-my-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"In my memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In my memory<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nIn Debenhams, one Christmas, selling socks and ties<br \/>\nA tiny girl, who giggled, and had lovely soft blue eyes<br \/>\nI asked her to the pictures, she didn&#8217;t quite say no<br \/>\nBut she never picked the phone up and I never got to go<\/p>\n<p>Strange memories are stirring, I cannot tell you why<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m sitting here and smiling, with a rather rueful sigh<\/p>\n<p>Another girl, a party, she&#8217;s collapsing in my arms<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m pretty sure she&#8217;s falling for my awkward teenage charms<br \/>\nBut the vision that&#8217;s before me, started fading far too quick<br \/>\nHer head was turning sideways she was violently sick<\/p>\n<p>Strange memories are stirring, I cannot tell you why<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m sitting here and smiling, with a rather rueful sigh<\/p>\n<p>Young Anna had a bottom, that she always wanted smacked<br \/>\nA smile that promised laughter and the power to attract<br \/>\nIt lasted just a few weeks, while she played at every game<br \/>\nBut she choose another fellow and I think that was a shame<\/p>\n<p>Strange memories are stirring, I cannot tell you why<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m sitting here and smiling, with a rather rueful sigh<\/p>\n<p>Just once when up at Uni, well maybe twice or thrice<br \/>\nA girl who loved her dancing, and who treated me so nice<br \/>\nI made her cakes and dinner, and she made me feel a man<br \/>\nAnd if you get the offer simply grab it while you can<\/p>\n<p>Strange memories are stirring, I cannot tell you why<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m sitting here and smiling, with a rather rueful sigh<\/p>\n<p>Just snippets from a memory, or snatches from my past<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t what has started this, but it has been a blast<br \/>\nThe ladies I remember, are not her today with me<br \/>\nBut I keep them safe and shiny buried in my memory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my memory by cricketjeff on April 10, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved In Debenhams, one Christmas, selling socks and ties A tiny girl, who giggled, and had lovely soft blue eyes I asked her to the pictures, she didn&#8217;t quite say no But she never picked the phone up and I never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2624","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2624\/revisions\/8885"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}