{"id":133620,"date":"2023-09-02T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133620"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:38:36","slug":"funeral-singers-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/funeral-singers-8\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNERAL SINGERS &#8211; #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cAll my friends are funeral singers\u201d &#8211; Sylvan Esso \/ Califone<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They line up, in formation dressed in black and gold<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their harmonies studied their conductor reaches out<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stretching towards each note passed from open mouths<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They take care not to step out of the lines<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They are practicing to herald my final movements<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I imagine a simple coffin, a few flowers on the top<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No grave to throw roses or tulips or dandelions<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">but weeds are welcome at my final concert<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The songs having been carefully chosen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By all of them together over a few drams<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I taught them how to enjoy the single scotch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Carried far from cool islands to warmer climes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How to dance to the speech of foxes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They will not mourn me<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They are practiced in saying goodbye<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll my friends are funeral singers\u201d &#8211; Sylvan Esso \/ Califone &nbsp; They line up, in formation dressed in black and gold Their harmonies studied their conductor reaches out Stretching towards each note passed from open mouths They take care not to step out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[813,6035,6032,6016,265,6033,6034],"class_list":["post-133620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-dance","tag-dandelions","tag-foxes","tag-funeral-singers","tag-roses","tag-scotch","tag-tulips","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133620","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\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133643,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133620\/revisions\/133643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}