{"id":2238,"date":"2013-05-31T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2013-05-31T16:03:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:03:10","slug":"the-poets-occasional-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-poets-occasional-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet&#8217;s Occasional Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Grace Paley<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write a poem<br \/>\nI made a pie instead<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>it took<br \/>\nabout the same amount of time<br \/>\nof course the pie was a final<br \/>\ndraft<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>a poem would have some<br \/>\ndistance to go<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>days and weeks and<br \/>\nmuch crumpled paper<\/p>\n<p>the pie already had a talking<br \/>\ntumbling audience among small<br \/>\ntrucks and a fire engine on<br \/>\nthe kitchen floor<\/p>\n<p>everybody will like this pie<br \/>\nit will have apples and cranberries<br \/>\ndried apricots in it<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>many friends<br \/>\nwill say<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>why in the world did you<br \/>\nmake only one<\/p>\n<p>this does not happen with poems<\/p>\n<p>because of unreportable<br \/>\nsadnesses I decided to<br \/>\nsettle this morning for a re-<br \/>\nsponsive eatership<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>I do not<br \/>\nwant to wait a week<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>a year<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persimmontree.org\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"2\" border=\"0\" \/>a<br \/>\ngeneration for the right<br \/>\nconsumer to come along<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on Monday, May 27, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grace Paley I was going to write a poem I made a pie insteadit took about the same amount of time of course the pie was a final drafta poem would have some distance to godays and weeks and much crumpled paper the pie already had a talking tumbling audience among small trucks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}