{"id":1749,"date":"2013-04-17T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2013-04-21T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T20:06:49","slug":"poem-the-thing-she-said-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/poem-the-thing-she-said-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: The Thing She Said to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thing She Said to Me<\/h3>\n

The poets and rockers
\ndidn’t go beyond Avenue A,
\n<\/span>where the poverty was unromantic.<\/span><\/p>\n

My fifth-floor walk-up (Ave. C and 9th)
\nlooked over the rooftops of Manhattan,
\n<\/span>to the sea beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Robert Smith<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Floating above the world,
\nthe carnival-lit World Trade Center
\n<\/span>tethered me every night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around the corner,
\nthe heartless barmaid Dolores lifted her blouse
\n<\/span>to torture the old men anchored to their drinks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Painting: Mother Nursing Infant<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Until Life Cafe (Ave. B and 11th) opened,
\nDolores’ death-filled dive
\n<\/span>is where we went.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Swiss threw her number
\n<\/span>on my table as she left Life Cafe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Love Everything About It<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Sitting in my window,
\nposing for a painting,
\n<\/span>her beauty shined like a beacon (I am not making this up).<\/span><\/p>\n

Framed against the sky,
\n<\/span>in heavily accented English she said,
\n“Why do you let your friends betray you?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Book Thief<\/span><\/a><\/div>

-2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Thing She Said to Me The poets and rockers didn’t go beyond Avenue A, where the poverty was unromantic. My fifth-floor walk-up (Ave. C and 9th) looked over the rooftops of Manhattan, to the sea beyond. Read moreRobert SmithFloating above the world, the carnival-lit World Trade Center tethered me every night. Around the corner, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio","category-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6007,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/in-the-studio\/","url_meta":{"origin":1749,"position":0},"title":"In the studio","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"After working on paintings with a lot of figures in them, working on The Photographer's single figure is refreshing. \u00a0I don't actually know the woman in this painting, which is based on one of many photos I took at a local fair. \u00a0Anyway, she struck me as a tough customer;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bio"","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/studio-4-10-16.jpg?fit=666%2C943&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/studio-4-10-16.jpg?fit=666%2C943&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/studio-4-10-16.jpg?fit=666%2C943&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11740,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/poem-the-poets-wife\/","url_meta":{"origin":1749,"position":1},"title":"Poem: The Poet’s Wife","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 22, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes I post my poetry here on my blog. 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