{"id":4016,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4016"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:00:01","slug":"inattention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/inattention\/","title":{"rendered":"Inattention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Inattention<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>He hardly heard her footsteps in the hall<br \/>\nAnd scarcely saw the shadow as she passed<br \/>\nWhy should he think today would be his last<br \/>\nThe chance of any accident was small<br \/>\nHe hadn&#8217;t read the writing on the wall<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d lived and died so many years before<br \/>\nToo few would even recollect her name<br \/>\nPerhaps indifference would be to blame<br \/>\nIf he had paid attention heretofore<br \/>\nHe wouldn&#8217;t now be lying on the floor<\/p>\n<p>It takes a spectre many years to learn<br \/>\nThe ways to influence those left on Earth<br \/>\nAt first her powers may seem of little worth<br \/>\nBut months and years will come and go in turn<br \/>\nAnd wasting time is not a ghost&#8217;s concern<\/p>\n<p>So many people say that life&#8217;s a wheel<br \/>\nThe past repeats in what is yet to be<br \/>\nShe left him clues that he could never see<br \/>\nHe stumbled through her final mute appeal<br \/>\nToo wrapped up in himself to ever feel<\/p>\n<p>He went to bed with laughter in his eyes<br \/>\nA happy man with all of life ahead<br \/>\nBefore the dawn this happy man was dead<br \/>\nWithout the chance to register surprise<br \/>\nHe paid the price for all his father&#8217;s lies!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think it is a form I have ever heard of, but if you know better, let me<br \/>\nknow [Posts%20by%20cricketjeff%202_files\/happy.gif]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inattention by cricketjeff on July 23, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He hardly heard her footsteps in the hall And scarcely saw the shadow as she passed Why should he think today would be his last The chance of any accident was small He hadn&#8217;t read the writing on the wall She&#8217;d lived [&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-4016","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4016","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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4016\/revisions\/7492"}],"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=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}