{"id":5070,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5070"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:57:32","slug":"resistentialism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/resistentialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistentialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Resistentialism<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on May 23, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nInanimate, but are they unaware?<br \/>\nIt sometimes seems they&#8217;re working to a plan<br \/>\nA secret scheme that we can never share<br \/>\nThe realm of things is none too keen on man<\/p>\n<p>The train I missed broke down and wouldn&#8217;t move<br \/>\nAnd so my own was forty minutes late<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll understand my plight as soon as you&#8217;ve<br \/>\nSat steaming as these things decide your fate<\/p>\n<p>And while I steamed, beneath another train<br \/>\nAn ancient rail decided it would snap<br \/>\nAnother thing was heaping on the pain<br \/>\nThey must believe that I&#8217;m a dreadful chap<\/p>\n<p>Another train, and then a dreary walk<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just in time to see the fast train leave<br \/>\nIf you shut up I know we&#8217;ll hear them talk<br \/>\nA whispered plan our minds cannot conceive<\/p>\n<p>A twenty minute stand is long enough<br \/>\nAnd all around I sense their sharpened knives<br \/>\nCan I survive this fight against the stuff<br \/>\nThat we believe exists to ease our lives<\/p>\n<p>The final leg I&#8217;ll walk not make a fuss<br \/>\nAlthough I know that walking isn&#8217;t fast<br \/>\nNo point in waiting for a late-night bus<br \/>\nThen as I leave I watch it sailing past!<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nResistentialism was invented (I think I remember correctly) by Paul Jennings to<br \/>\ndescribe the fundamental hostility of things to man, they hate us you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resistentialism by cricketjeff on May 23, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Inanimate, but are they unaware? It sometimes seems they&#8217;re working to a plan A secret scheme that we can never share The realm of things is none too keen on man The train I missed broke down and wouldn&#8217;t move And so [&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-5070","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5070","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=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6438,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5070\/revisions\/6438"}],"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=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}