{"id":99649,"date":"2021-06-27T01:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99649"},"modified":"2021-06-27T22:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T02:01:23","slug":"poem-17-a-tribute-to-dorothy-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-17-a-tribute-to-dorothy-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 17:\u00a0 A Tribute to Dorothy Parker  &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Help It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is this burden I have pursed<\/p>\n<p>I dare claim myself a victim<\/p>\n<p>For I am a woman and I am forever cursed<\/p>\n<p>and I shall not blame you or him<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have crawled to, in my drunken whine<\/p>\n<p>for some reward, I do not know<\/p>\n<p>Expecting to be a pet, how low<\/p>\n<p>or planning on you to be leashed as mine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we are little, we are told<\/p>\n<p>Everything, and our puny spirits glowed<\/p>\n<p>and we nodded our stupid heads<\/p>\n<p>The easy path to successes beds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh what a colossal blunder we have been<\/p>\n<p>I will certainly volunteer<\/p>\n<p>and make myself scarce again<\/p>\n<p>There is no loss to that, no tear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I bid you good riddance<\/p>\n<p>but I fear we will meet in circumstance<\/p>\n<p>and go for one of our passion rides<\/p>\n<p>alas, to be carried away by the lonesome tides<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I drink a toast<\/p>\n<p>As I go to the coast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What is this burden I have pursed I dare claim myself a victim For I am a woman and I am forever cursed and I shall not blame you or him &nbsp; I have crawled to, in my drunken whine for some reward, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99649","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103492,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99649\/revisions\/103492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}