{"id":3559,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3559"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"if-staples-be-the-food-of-love","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/if-staples-be-the-food-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"If staples be the food of love &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> If staples be the food of love &#8230;<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on January 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWith Hamlet and with Guildenstern as boys<br \/>\nWe thought that love would never be for us<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the sort of thing a boy enjoys<br \/>\nAnd girls can make a dreadful lot of fuss<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve been cured of cynical detachment<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen the light and I am always yours<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve won me with your wonderful attachment<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re everything the modern man adores<\/p>\n<p>Oh Rexel you&#8217;re the early morning light<br \/>\nYour long arm lets you reach to light the way<br \/>\nWhat you have joined is held together tight<br \/>\nOh won&#8217;t you join yourself to me today?<\/p>\n<p>So lovingly I&#8217;d fill you up with staples<br \/>\nAnd take you on a honeymoon to Naples!!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nSorry about that but I&#8217;m a Shakespeare addict, I trust Guildenstern and the<br \/>\nghost of the Prince won&#8217;t be too sad to lose their schoolfriend but a happy<br \/>\nmarriage is clearly in the making &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am unhappy with the attachment\/detachment feminine rhyme, it is a little too<br \/>\nheavy and too rich for me, looking for an alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If staples be the food of love &#8230; by cricketjeff on January 27, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved With Hamlet and with Guildenstern as boys We thought that love would never be for us It&#8217;s not the sort of thing a boy enjoys And girls can make a dreadful lot of fuss But [&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-3559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559","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=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3559\/revisions\/7948"}],"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=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}