\n<\/span>You\u2019ve just stumbled across
\nA cool looking book.
\n<\/span>The Fellowship of the Ring.
\n<\/i>The first of three.
\nDo yourself a favour.
\nGet books II & III too.
\nThen you won\u2019t have to wait
\nTill Monday to find out
\n<\/span>What happens to the all the little hobbitses.<\/p>\n
iii. Dear gareth, Age 22 Before She\u2019s Actually Walking Out the Door<\/i><\/p>\n
For god\u2019s sake you fucking great fool.
\nTry harder.
\nYou\u2019ll always regret you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
iv. Dear gareth, Age 23 Making Love In The Thunderstorm By The Ressie<\/i><\/p>\n
While you\u2019re having a good time v. Dear gareth, Age\u00a0 <\/span>22-44\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Deal with your grief sooner. vi. Dear gareth, Age 39<\/i><\/p>\n I know. I remember. vii. Dear gareth, Age Right Now<\/i><\/p>\n I really suggest ending this poem 7 quick poems to previous versions of gareth i. Dear gareth, Age 4 Arranging Paper Words On Gran & Grandad\u2019s Dining Room Floor Not got much to say to you, buddy. You seem to be doing ok, so far as I can see. ii. Dear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52943","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52961,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52943\/revisions\/52961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>can I ask you to pay a bit more attention
\ncos while you might think you\u2019ll remember
\nhow it felt, I can assure you a quarter century on
\nYou won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\nIt makes life easier.
\n& you might have avoided the black hole of 39.<\/p>\n
\nStrive for peace.<\/p>\n
\n& going to the loo to pee.
\nAdvice to former incarnations is one thing
\nBut listening to your bladder
\nis the profoundest thing I\u2019ve got left to say going forward.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/11.-multiples-300x200.jpg\")
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