Negotiation
\nby cricketjeff on August 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nTwo love birds on an apple bough that live to bill and coo
\n\u00a0 And sing a subtle song to show they care
\nA feathered nest where they can sleep and do what love birds do
\n\u00a0 I envy them the chance they have to share<\/p>\n
Majestic swans that glide along and raise another brood
\n\u00a0 A partnership of equals built to last
\nThe only things to argue for are children’s bags of food
\n\u00a0 And very soon such silliness is past<\/p>\n
The Robin likes to boss his mate, but she’s the better man
\n\u00a0 They can’t be split by arguing the toss
\nThese birds all seem to get along in any way they can
\n\u00a0 I’ll follow them and let you be the boss<\/p>\n
I know you like me to take charge, and look so big and tough
\n\u00a0 As long as all I do is what you need
\nSo I’ll pretend that I’m the man, your special bit of rough
\n\u00a0 And give your fancies just a bit of feed<\/p>\n
The Blackbird in his shiny coat who sings his love all day
\n\u00a0 Is only singing so she’ll always smile
\nAnd just like him I’ll do my part to keep things as you say
\n\u00a0 And maybe we’ll be happy for a while<\/p>\n
This ancient game of birds and bees and keeping ladies sweet
\n\u00a0 Has worked for all these years for man and bird
\nSo I’m prepared to carry on pretending life’s complete
\n\u00a0 If you’ll pretend you’ll hear my every word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Negotiation by cricketjeff on August 21, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Two love birds on an apple bough that live to bill and coo \u00a0 And sing a subtle song to show they care A feathered nest where they can sleep and do what love birds do \u00a0 I envy them the chance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3149","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=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3149\/revisions\/8359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}