{"id":1206,"date":"2022-12-15T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2022-12-21T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:13:44","slug":"curtains-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2022\/12\/curtains-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtains (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corn flakes, coffee, curtains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My space, her space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breakfast for me on a little table with fine china<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hers in the kitchen on paper towels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First class, economy class, first class, curtains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our space, their space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complimentary Diet Coke for me, complimentary wine for them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tolerance for us, importance for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stage, actors, audience, actors, curtains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scripts for them, silence for us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curtains, drapes, nettings, shades<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flung open<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maids and valets bunch the folds with tiebacks;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside, inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aristocratic heads on pillows, blinking into the light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time to start tying the corsets, choosing the gloves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making the distinctions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Downstairs, upstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curtains of lace, of velvet, cotton, polyester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blinds and lattices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You, me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Them, us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Window treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn flakes, coffee, curtains My space, her space Breakfast for me on a little table with fine china Hers in the kitchen on paper towels First class, economy class, first class, curtains Our space, their space Complimentary Diet Coke for me, complimentary wine for them Tolerance for us, importance for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-writing","category-united-kingdom-and-ireland-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}