{"id":4546,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4546"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:39","slug":"new-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/n-poems\/new-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"New neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New neighbourhood<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI&#8217;m walking the road to poetry<\/p>\n<p>stuttering steps on coarse cobbles<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 as I start<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bumbling and bumping<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 learning to walk<br \/>\non the street<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 where I want<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to live<\/p>\n<p>Rhymes run round me<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 laughing and loving<br \/>\nmeterbikes roar by<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 their riders revelling in<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the music of their machines<br \/>\nwhile pastoral poets<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 walk their pets<\/p>\n<p>But I keep walking<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 past penthouse apartments<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 where high flyers fly high<br \/>\nold new-conventionalists<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 drink supermarket spirits<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 sitting in judgement on<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 park benches<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 propped on piles of sliced up prose<br \/>\ntall testy tenements<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 where the clip clip clip<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 of cheap stiletto verses<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 and dirty dog doggerel<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 rolls on the floors<\/p>\n<p>Some neighbours nod<br \/>\n\u00a0 pass comment and pass on<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and some<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the good ones<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 stop me and talk<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 tell me of new streets,<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 new sights to see<\/p>\n<p>and through it all<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 past all the heres and nows<br \/>\nI keep on walking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New neighbourhood by cricketjeff on April 12, 2010.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I&#8217;m walking the road to poetry stuttering steps on coarse cobbles \u00a0 \u00a0 as I start \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 bumbling and bumping \u00a0 \u00a0 learning to walk on the street \u00a0 \u00a0 where I want \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to [&hellip;]<\/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-4546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4546","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=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4546\/revisions\/6962"}],"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=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}