{"id":36,"date":"2020-01-16T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=36"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:09:08","slug":"living-with-the-accountant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Living with the Accountant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Haven’t posted in 2 1\/2 months. Not positive anyone reads these haha. (If you do and you’d like to see more, shoot me an email at john@ichthusmhk.org.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my poetry writing output has slowed WAY down from when I first started in November 2017. I wrote 165 poems in the first seven months, but in the last seven, just over 30. Various reasons for that–some valid, some that reflect the constant resistance on the creative process that artists told me about. But I still love to do it. And I have thought happily a number of times of how fun it would be to take a retreat just focused on writing poems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I finally did it! Well, sorta. I came to KC yesterday for about a 24-hour period (scrunched some by having to take insurance claim pictures of my daughter’s vehicle that got speared by a Leawood snowplow recently–there is always something!) and decided to take maybe half of my productive hours to do poetry-related things. Not exactly a long retreat–but certainly better than nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I got tired yesterday before I’d done much, so I decided to take a nap at 4pm. Yeah, I then woke up at 10:30pm. I guess I was tired, eh? (I won’t even tell you about the bizarre dream I had. I did write a poem about it, but it probably won’t make it here LOL.)<\/em> Anyway, I grabbed some lovely QT coffee and worked til about 5 am … and I had a ball. Such fun. Wrote about 6 1\/2 poems, including one I collaborated with some friends on in the brainstorming process about a month ago, and I thought I’d share a short one inspired by a recent movie I saw. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIVING WITH THE ACCOUNTANT<\/strong>
I like incongruity
He said with one of his seven smiles
If he\u2019s willing he could like himself
These tender Mr Darcys
how do you pluralize that<\/em>
please don’t say it’s an apostrophe<\/em>
but I digress<\/em>
Foreboding gray waters
Teeming with life
A world unseen
Awaiting a lover’s eye
Lest it die denied
Or dormant lie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haven’t posted in 2 1\/2 months. Not positive anyone reads these haha. (If you do and you’d like to see more, shoot me an email at john@ichthusmhk.org.) So my poetry writing output has slowed WAY down from when I first started in November 2017. I wrote 165 poems in the first seven months, but in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}