{"id":26397,"date":"2016-08-14T00:44:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26397"},"modified":"2016-08-14T00:52:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:52:29","slug":"centennial-nickel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/centennial-nickel\/","title":{"rendered":"Centennial Nickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Centennial Nickel<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I had a centennial nickel for all the lips I wanted to kiss,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be rich beyond reason<\/p>\n<p>and that might just<\/p>\n<p>quell the<\/p>\n<p>questions<\/p>\n<p>and the questioning<\/p>\n<p>about what I\u2019ve been missing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The faces shine before me,<\/p>\n<p>like a centennial nickel,<\/p>\n<p>those sometime friends<\/p>\n<p>those would be lovers<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>could be strangers;<\/p>\n<p>those passers-by who<\/p>\n<p>smelled delicious.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The boys at the<\/p>\n<p>boxcar parties<\/p>\n<p>on frozen December nights \u2013<\/p>\n<p>clear and crisp<\/p>\n<p>stars shining<\/p>\n<p>like centennial nickels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The smug alt chicks at the<\/p>\n<p>closing night parties<\/p>\n<p>on frigid April nights \u2013<\/p>\n<p>when the thaw should have started.<\/p>\n<p>Backstage their desire shone<\/p>\n<p>like centennial nickels<\/p>\n<p>but now,<\/p>\n<p>in the cold light of day,<\/p>\n<p>I was \u201ctoo straight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so it would be for me,<\/p>\n<p>caught in between,<\/p>\n<p>wishing I had a centennial nickel for all the lips I wanted to kiss.<\/p>\n<p>(c) R. L. Elke 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centennial Nickel \u00a0 If I had a centennial nickel for all the lips I wanted to kiss, I\u2019d be rich beyond reason and that might just quell the questions and the questioning about what I\u2019ve been missing. &nbsp; The faces shine before me, like a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26402,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions\/26402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}