{"id":314,"date":"2012-02-10T16:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=314"},"modified":"2012-02-10T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:15:26","slug":"what-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/what-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p>if I could but drink the blood of Oberon<br \/>\nand feast his flesh, and suck the marrow coarse<br \/>\nin half a dream, I could (I do believe)<br \/>\ncome to bring the south unto the north<br \/>\nand light to dark worlds would then come,<br \/>\nand I as King would then collect the tax\u00e8d sum.<\/p>\n<p>for Oberon is Alberich&#8211;yes elvenking is dwarf;<br \/>\nhe ought to travel south to drip his golden rings for me.<br \/>\nand in this shape I wear tonight, this form of beast<br \/>\nI could rule this shattered world, both brittle earth and sea;<br \/>\ntearing concrete from the soil and metal from the loam<br \/>\nand make in wilderness my seat of power and my throne<\/p>\n<p>my name is not a spell these days; &#8217;tis dry<br \/>\nmy pow&#8217;r is ever on the wane, a well of dust<br \/>\nand if I should ever more come across unpair&#8217;d man<br \/>\nhis forgotten ancient words make barrier to my game<br \/>\nbut underneath your dreams, along the tidy shadowed streets,<br \/>\nPuck rhymes your dreams, and lies betwixt thy so-clean sheets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>&#8212; Saskatoon, 1998<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar if I could but drink the blood of Oberon and feast his flesh, and suck the marrow coarse in half a dream, I could (I do believe) come to bring the south unto the north and light to dark worlds would then come, and I as King would then collect the tax\u00e8d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-54","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}