{"id":1336,"date":"2025-07-25T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:01:01","slug":"journal-poem-47-by-marco-frucht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"journal poem 47  &#8211; by marco frucht"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>journal poem 47 &#8211; marco<br \/><br \/>Plywood windows<br \/>And Tyvek<br \/><br \/>It takes two semesters at a college to find out <br \/>An entire state is just too expensive <br \/>For a middle class person all by himself. <br \/><br \/>A great place to grow up<br \/>Just as great to retire in<br \/>But to make it? Oy! <br \/><br \/>Amway<br \/>Making the world safe for <br \/>Cleaning products<br \/><br \/>So they say an Avocado is 120 calories<br \/>And a grapefruit is 52. <br \/>Can a small bag of peanuts be about the same? <br \/><br \/>Strange parody: I compose words<br \/>To Django Reinhardt&#8217;s instrumental, <br \/>&#8220;Dapne.&#8221; <br \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s just a smidgeon: <br \/><br \/>Daphne, you do me wrong. <br \/>Daphne, oh daphne<br \/>I sing you this song<br \/>Because, well yes, because <br \/>you did me so badly,<br \/>I loved you so madly<br \/>But you slighted and spited and smote me so,<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;ll just sing along<br \/>Another <br \/>Some body named Daphne <br \/>Done me wrong song. <br \/><br \/>Does the phrase, &#8220;Hindsight is 20\/20&#8221; hold up<br \/>If you&#8217;re nearsighted? <br \/>And Ashley Montagu will teach you how to curse. <br \/><br \/>Now I must ask, is Phemus famous or just well regarded? <br \/><br \/>Were you there when Red Auerbach told K.C. Jones, <br \/>&#8220;Think Yiddish, dress British.&#8221; <br \/><br \/>10 for i = 1-10 <br \/>20 next i<br \/>30 go to journal poem #48 <br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<!--a=1--><!--a=1-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>journal poem 47 &#8211; marco Plywood windowsAnd Tyvek It takes two semesters at a college to find out An entire state is just too expensive For a middle class person all by himself. A great place to grow upJust as great to retire inBut to make it? Oy! AmwayMaking the world safe for Cleaning products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-humor","category-mundane-or-sublime","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}