{"id":332,"date":"2005-12-19T22:09:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/the-mind-of-abrupt\/2005\/12\/19\/downers-grove\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T01:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:05:43","slug":"downers-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/downers-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Downers Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By my calculations,<br \/>\nOne whole bottle of wine<br \/>\nAnd a half of champagne,<br \/>\nHad each passed between us<br \/>\nAs we let the night drain,<br \/>\nIn your basement, drunk, laughing<br \/>\nAt tapes you had made.<\/p>\n<p>You will-o&#8217;-the-wisp \u2013<br \/>\nI had driven for miles,<br \/>\nAnd crossed two state lines,<br \/>\nTo visit a stranger<br \/>\nAnd be by her side,<br \/>\nWith no expectations<br \/>\nAnd nothing to hide.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 I was your guest<br \/>\nit was your wine<br \/>\nwhere&#8217;d you go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Down the block, by a school,<br \/>\nWe staggered, you pushed<br \/>\nMe down to the ground.<br \/>\nPixie traveler, I should have<br \/>\nKnown then what I know now.<br \/>\nYou swigged from the bottle<br \/>\nAnd then set it down.<\/p>\n<p>You were warm for the weather<br \/>\nAs we shuddered together.<br \/>\nIn those autumn leaves folded<br \/>\nGreat plans. I was drunk with<br \/>\nYour idea \u2014 I was loaded.<br \/>\nWhen you finally kissed me<br \/>\nThe future exploded.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 I was your guest<br \/>\nI needed more<br \/>\nwhere&#8217;d you go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a test: the board was set.<br \/>\nYou moved your queen against me<br \/>\nOnce you had me in check.<br \/>\nReady to move,<br \/>\nI was ready to risk,<br \/>\nBut you pulled away laughing<br \/>\nBefore it progressed.<\/p>\n<p>Probably wise, woman stopped it<br \/>\nJust over the border<br \/>\nThat we had just crossed;<br \/>\nStill deep in her drunkenness<br \/>\nWeighing the cost.<br \/>\nBut the future lay wounded<br \/>\nAnd heaving, and lost.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 I was your guest<br \/>\nlong ago<br \/>\nso let go<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>I was your guest \/ it was your wine<br \/>\nwhere&#8217;d you go?<\/em> &#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":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-abrupt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}