{"id":292,"date":"2015-07-24T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=292"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:26:37","slug":"strange-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Strange [Classic] (14 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Since today is &#8216;brother day&#8217; [I posted some riddles written with&nbsp;another brother&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?cat=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>], below&nbsp;is a poem written with my brother Rob when we were both quite young &#8212; early teens? pre-teens?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Silly is good. Weebles, if you&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;know, are toys from my youth [<a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFzhjnjXc2o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>the untiring sound of scraping your dog<br \/>\nthe wonderful feel of bumps on a log<br \/>\nthe pleasant aroma of reheated gloves<br \/>\nthe inflatable raft of your only true love<br \/>\nbowling balls marching from here to Siam<br \/>\nthe congested sinus of Lizzie the lamb<br \/>\nthe rhythmic laughter of Weebles at play<br \/>\nthe croak of a needle that&#8217;s lost in the hay<br \/>\nthe hum of a hummingbird not told the words<br \/>\nthe triumphant bugle of elephant birds<br \/>\nthe innocent fungus infesting the crown<br \/>\nthe munching of Freetos to <em>Sweet Georgia Brown<\/em><br \/>\nthe puckered-up thumbprint from sucking your thumb<br \/>\nthe end of this poem most surely has come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since today is &#8216;brother day&#8217; [I posted some riddles written with&nbsp;another brother&nbsp;here], below&nbsp;is a poem written with my brother Rob when we were both quite young &#8212; early teens? pre-teens? Silly is good. Weebles, if you&nbsp;don&#8217;t&nbsp;know, are toys from my youth [link] the untiring sound of scraping your dog the wonderful feel of bumps on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange [Classic] (14 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}