{"id":1328,"date":"2025-01-11T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2025-01-11T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:17:57","slug":"journal-poem-55-from-volume-2-of-the-upcoming-journal-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Journal Poem #55 &#8211; from Volume 2 of the upcoming Journal Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Journal Poem #55<br \/>from JournalPoems Volume 2. <br \/><br \/>Here I sit pensive, dark and dreary <br \/>In a restaurant so expensive <br \/><br \/>Airplane mode<br \/>Typing haikuish Poem <br \/>Sitting in window seat<br \/>Awaiting land.<br \/><br \/>So I told the pizza chef, listen I know you&#8217;re still trying<br \/>To develop the world&#8217;s greatest sourdough crust <br \/>But you&#8217;re not quite there. <br \/><br \/>At the risk of sounding offensive <br \/>I must tell you, <br \/>This dough just taste <br \/>Like Matzos without the salt. <br \/><br \/>He just smiled and said, old friend:<br \/>Let me remind you, since you&#8217;re the one who told me<br \/>Dale Carnegie was quoted saying,<br \/>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a bagel, it&#8217;s a white bread with a hole.&#8221; <br \/><br \/>And it&#8217;s not his fault. <br \/><br \/>We all want a better car<br \/>A better car, we all want a better car<br \/>Isn&#8217;t it just a little offensive <br \/>We here in America <br \/>Unhappy with the car we have<br \/><br \/>We all want a better fone <br \/>A better fone than the one we have <br \/>It&#8217;s a bit much, we, here unhappy<br \/>With the fone we own<br \/><br \/>We all want a better house<br \/>House<br \/>House<br \/>Isn&#8217;t it wild<br \/>We, so unhappy with the house we got<br \/><br \/>A better job?<br \/>Yeah, we all want a better job<br \/>Want, want, want, <br \/>Think we need, so unhappy <br \/>With the job we keep<a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pixOfDLcardz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1054 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pixOfDLcardz-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pixOfDLcardz-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pixOfDLcardz-1024x778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/><br \/>What we really want<br \/>and need, <br \/>And deserve? <br \/>Simply a better life.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/marcfruchtpoet\">https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/marcfruchtpoet<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/atizine\/journal-poem-21-frybread\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/atizine\/journal-poem-21-frybread<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journal Poem #55from JournalPoems Volume 2. Here I sit pensive, dark and dreary In a restaurant so expensive Airplane modeTyping haikuish Poem Sitting in window seatAwaiting land. So I told the pizza chef, listen I know you&#8217;re still tryingTo develop the world&#8217;s greatest sourdough crust But you&#8217;re not quite there. At the risk of sounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-mundane-or-sublime","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}