{"id":325,"date":"2000-07-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2000-07-26T06:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2024-09-05T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:43:52","slug":"brooklyn-fragment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/brooklyn-fragment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic bread on a board<br \/>\nOld wood counters, etched with cuts<br \/>\nCups and wicker<br \/>\nPots hung on the makeshift wall<br \/>\nTea brews<\/p>\n<p>You can lean through plants here<br \/>\nAnd see Brooklyn<br \/>\nThrough a high kitchen window<br \/>\nTry not to topple the handmade vase<\/p>\n<p>A house of music<br \/>\nAnd movies &#8212; old black-and-whites<br \/>\nAnd wine<br \/>\nIn her room, a futon on the floor,<\/p>\n<p>It took me how long to figure<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t there to fix<br \/>\nHer computer?<br \/>\nSome men drink liquor<br \/>\nOr golf the time away<br \/>\nBut for me life has a certain sorrow<br \/>\nScenting my fingers still next day<\/p>\n<p>I was young I was old<br \/>\nBut I was mostly in between<br \/>\nThe music was fine<br \/>\nAnd the books were fine<br \/>\nThe stars were wrong<br \/>\n\t&#8212; but the movies were fine<\/p>\n<p>When I left there, we were smiling<br \/>\nUnashamed and unfulfilled<br \/>\nWith not much left to say<br \/>\nOn her desk sat a working computer<br \/>\nAnd in my pocket some notes<br \/>\nOn the music she&#8217;d<br \/>\nPlayed<br \/>\nThrough the night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic bread on a board<br \/>\nOld wood counters, etched with cuts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[256,84,348],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt","tag-food","tag-new-york","tag-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}