{"id":1964,"date":"2014-04-09T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2014-04-09T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:57:11","slug":"napowrimo-day-9-variations-on-carlos-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day 9: variations on Carlos Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The prompt for day 8 was to rewrite a famous poem. I couldn’t decide between two of Carlos Williams’ poems “This is just to say” <\/a>and “The\u00a0Red Wheelbarrow<\/a>” – so I did both.<\/p>\n

21st C. Variations on a theme by Carlos-Williams<\/h4>\n

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This Is Just To Say<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have eaten<\/p>\n

the plums<\/p>\n

that were in<\/p>\n

the fridge<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and which<\/p>\n

you were probably<\/p>\n

saving<\/p>\n

for breakfast.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Let it go.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Anyway, they<\/p>\n

tasted like<\/p>\n

shit.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This Is Just To Say<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have eaten<\/p>\n

the plums<\/p>\n

that were in<\/p>\n

the fridge<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and which<\/p>\n

you were probably<\/p>\n

saving<\/p>\n

for breakfast.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sucked in.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

middle-aged casanova<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

so much depends<\/p>\n

on a red<\/p>\n

sports<\/p>\n

car<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a toup\u00e9<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

an<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

u<\/p>\n

p<\/p>\n

w<\/p>\n

a<\/p>\n

r<\/p>\n

d<\/p>\n

l<\/p>\n

y<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

mobile<\/p>\n

personal<\/p>\n

assistant<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

a<\/p>\n

r<\/p>\n

g<\/p>\n

a<\/p>\n

i<\/p>\n

v<\/p>\n

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The prompt for day 8 was to rewrite a famous poem. I couldn’t decide between two of Carlos Williams’ poems “This is just to say” and “The\u00a0Red Wheelbarrow” – so I did both. 21st C. Variations on a theme by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}