{"id":17,"date":"2026-04-02T00:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:21:37","slug":"writings-poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/writings-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Writings &#038; Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color\">Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\">The tea parties not the tea rooms<br>The men\u2019s room in Machine City<br>was scandalous or so I\u2019m told<br>Glory holes off the Andromeda Strain<br>Cheap metallic concessions concourse<br>Connecting Sterling and CCL<br>Vending machine vending machine<br>weird murky ugly light but<br>leads to the secret heart of<br>This metaphor was going and going Nowhere my dear<br>And never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-primary-color has-text-color\">Henry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\">Short, wearing Bass Weejuns<br>I didn\u2019t have the vocabulary<br>But now I\u2019d say he was kinda hot<br>In a way not obvious but then<br>Very<br>and makes you nervous<br>In a tight cold Protestant way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\">Henry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Percolates with barely concealed libidinous<br>Trifles<br>Standing next to him<br>\u201cWhat are you\u2014\u201d<br>We didn\u2019t have any classes together<br>Standing next to him<br>I thought of Women in Love<br>Gerald and Birkin<br>Are all men either husbands or lovers<br>I said and smirked<br>What did I do to offend him<br>If he wanted to sleep with me all he had to<br>Do was ask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither The tea parties not the tea roomsThe men\u2019s room in Machine Citywas scandalous or so I\u2019m toldGlory holes off the Andromeda StrainCheap metallic concessions concourseConnecting Sterling and CCLVending machine vending machineweird murky ugly light butleads to the secret heart ofThis metaphor was going and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidrimanelli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}