{"id":172,"date":"2007-11-26T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2007\/11\/26\/remembrance\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T01:39:39","slug":"remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/2007\/11\/26\/remembrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan had sent me an email that he got from a past acquaintance of Joe’s. Upon hearing of his death, she Googled him and found Brendan’s blog. I reread both Brendan’s blog entries<\/a> and Anacrusis<\/a> about him. It was a fine way to commemorate our anniversary, Brendan. Thanks for the gift. If he had been here I would have shared a poem with him. He would have liked it, but would have criticized it. That’s the way he was. Instead I shared it with others and did without the criticism. I miss even that.<\/p>\n

Poem: “When I Am Old” by Ray Nargis, from Almost Tomorrow.<\/p>\n

When I Am Old<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I am old I shall wear a ball cap
\nFrom the St. Louis Browns
\nBecause my grandfather once played in their farm system,
\nOr maybe a John B. Stetson hat, three-corner fold,
\nFour X and black chinos with both suspenders and a belt
\nAnd the knees ripped out, not as a fashion statement,
\nBut from work.
\nAnd black biker boots and a T-shirt with the slogan
\n“I’m Working On My Issues.”
\nI’ll use a walking stick and not a cane
\nAnd have a key ring with about a hundred keys
\nAnd I won’t know what any of them open and I won’t care.<\/p>\n

When I am old I’ll drink whiskey in the morning
\nAnd coffee at night
\nAnd laugh and spit and swear wherever I want.
\nWhen I am old I’ll help Girl Scouts across the street
\nEven if they don’t want to go
\nAnd I won’t have a car
\nAnd I won’t have a bike
\nAnd I’ll walk everywhere.<\/p>\n

When I am old I’ll have a dog named Sam Peckinpaw
\nAnd some summer’s morning I’ll lock up the house
\nAnd old Sam and I will walk over to see to see one of my
\nsons
\nEven if he lives two states away.
\nWhen I am old I’ll tell people exactly what I think of them
\nAnd surprisingly, most of the time it really will be good
\nstuff.
\nWhen I am old I won’t have a TV
\nAnd I won’t have a radio
\nAnd I won’t have a computer or a clock or a phone in the
\nhouse.
\nI won’t read books and I won’t read magazines
\nAnd I won’t read newspapers and maybe, finally
\nI’ll learn something just watching the birds and the
\nweather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brendan had sent me an email that he got from a past acquaintance of Joe’s. Upon hearing of his death, she Googled him and found Brendan’s blog. I reread both Brendan’s blog entries and Anacrusis about him. It was a fine way to commemorate our anniversary, Brendan. Thanks for the gift. If he had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/mom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}