{..}<\/p>\n
yes
\nmemory slips
\nfast and growing faster
\nmaking life easier
\nwhen he\/she doesn’t
\nwant to hear what is said
\nshe reminds them
\nshe’s only just
\na crazy ol’ lady
\nthey heard it
\nshe does not have to debate it
\ngolden are the years
\nwhen she can say
\n“if you say so”
\nto pomposity<\/p>\n
her 81 year old sister calls
\nthey commensurate on death
\nshe asks, “are you ready to die?”
\ncrazy lady replies,
\n“what’s the alternative?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{..} yes memory slips fast and growing faster making life easier when he\/she doesn’t want to hear what is said she reminds them she’s only just a crazy ol’ lady they heard it she does not have to debate it golden are the years when she can say “if you say so” to pomposity her … Continue reading “crazy ol’ lady”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}