{"id":97976,"date":"2021-06-26T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97976"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:38:27","slug":"13-a-funeral-directors-conversation-with-deathits-been-many-years-ago-now-since-you-brought-into-my-office-two-new-babies-in-one-season-and-convinced-two-little-grandmas-to-come-to-you-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/13-a-funeral-directors-conversation-with-deathits-been-many-years-ago-now-since-you-brought-into-my-office-two-new-babies-in-one-season-and-convinced-two-little-grandmas-to-come-to-you-all\/","title":{"rendered":"13. A Funeral Director&#8217;s Conversation with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know we go way back<br \/>\nto the days of the Tim&#8217;s<br \/>\nand Richie and Gary and Monte<br \/>\nand what you deem your finest hour&#8230;<br \/>\nPaul<br \/>\nbut I have some things to say to you&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_153352_764.sdocx--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been many years ago now<br \/>\nsince you brought into my office<br \/>\ntwo new babies in one season,<br \/>\nand convinced two little grandma&#8217;s<br \/>\nto come to you all on their own.<\/p>\n<p>I never told you<br \/>\nbut these are the reasons<br \/>\nyou and I rarely speak these days<br \/>\nalthough there was your nasty bit<br \/>\nwith Dad five years ago,<br \/>\nand then Greg and Mom just two months past now.<\/p>\n<p>I have to tell you<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have the stomach anymore<br \/>\nto handle the casualties of your folly<br \/>\nthe inevitability of you<br \/>\nthe inescapable commitment<br \/>\nin our relationship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time you keep your distance for a while.<\/p>\n<p>This must have been<br \/>\nin the fine print somewhere<br \/>\nbut I missed it.<\/p>\n<p>Rather tricky of you<br \/>\nto send Birth in with the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Rather tricky&#8230;<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210626_152918_222.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we go way back to the days of the Tim&#8217;s and Richie and Gary and Monte and what you deem your finest hour&#8230; Paul but I have some things to say to you&#8230; It&#8217;s been many years ago now since you brought into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97976","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\/1305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98083,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97976\/revisions\/98083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}