{"id":125332,"date":"2023-04-17T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=125332"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:07:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:07:37","slug":"an-ode-to-mr-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/an-ode-to-mr-n\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Mr. N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you&#8230; handsome Mr. N.<br \/>\nMy very best friend in the Universe&#8230; God&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Told me about you 30 plus years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it, or not&#8230;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s BFF. Just ask him!<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s Sugar Daddy<br \/>\nsans the diabetic afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>His joke, not mine.<\/p>\n<p>Took me a long time to remember what Irene<br \/>\ntold me about you. She said &#8220;God sent you to me for a reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, she went on and on about<br \/>\nOMG, so much stuff!<\/p>\n<p>So much, that I never remember until after things happen.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. N., you don&#8217;t need my drama.<br \/>\nI am temptation, though this is not my intent.<\/p>\n<p>My intentions are poetry, music, and theater.<br \/>\nAll else feeds poetry, music, and theater.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m SO tired of all this exploitation. REALLY, I am S.A.T.O.I.A.!!!<\/p>\n<p>My good buddy, JC, says he&#8217;s going to give you<br \/>\nsome other drama to run with.<\/p>\n<p>Wait for it, Mr. N.<br \/>\nHave faith for it, Mr. N.<\/p>\n<p>God will never EVER guide you toward Machiavelli.<\/p>\n<p>Post-script commentary:<\/p>\n<p>Who, exactly is Mr. N.? N, stands for &#8220;Nobody&#8221;, &#8220;Nuisance&#8221;, &#8220;Nefarious&#8221;, &#8220;Nonsense&#8221;, &#8220;Nasty&#8221;, &#8220;Narcissist&#8221;, and &#8220;Nut-job&#8221;. I have a lot of Mr. N.&#8217;s in this life&#8217;s history. &#8220;Handsome&#8221;? Hey, flattery helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you&#8230; handsome Mr. N. My very best friend in the Universe&#8230; God&#8230; Told me about you 30 plus years ago. Believe it, or not&#8230; He&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s BFF. Just ask him! Everyone&#8217;s Sugar Daddy sans the diabetic afterlife. His joke, not mine. Took me a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125332\/revisions\/125341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}