{"id":2802,"date":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2802"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"regrets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/regrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Regrets<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on June 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nTwo hand-written words<br \/>\non a piece of paper<br \/>\nThat dances in the eddies<br \/>\nin the gutter<br \/>\nin the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Discarded carelessly<br \/>\nas she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Two hand written words<br \/>\ncarried his despair<br \/>\nalong with the<br \/>\nrain water<\/p>\n<p>On the bench<br \/>\nhe was shy<br \/>\nshe was keen<\/p>\n<p>They chose children&#8217;s names<br \/>\nas they completed<br \/>\na practice run<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marmaduke&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She laughed and lightning flashed<br \/>\nand thunder crashed<br \/>\nand it rained<\/p>\n<p>it was time to leave<\/p>\n<p>She pressed the note<br \/>\ninto his hand<br \/>\nas still laughing<br \/>\nthey kissed<br \/>\nand her taxi pulled away<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but I love my wife&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\n75% discarded to make it work!<br \/>\nThe two words, and the prompt, are &#8220;Marry me&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regrets by cricketjeff on June 1, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Two hand-written words on a piece of paper That dances in the eddies in the gutter in the rain. Discarded carelessly as she laughed. Two hand written words carried his despair along with the rain water On the bench he was shy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8706,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2802\/revisions\/8706"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}