<\/p>\n
we lay in a bed of lace and flowers<\/p>\n
the only substantial part the blanket<\/p>\n
that keeps the old man wind<\/p>\n
from your small body<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
my hands are warm and I touch you<\/p>\n
but (forgive me) they are frail with age<\/p>\n
while you my love will never grow old<\/p>\n
will always be<\/p>\n
young, energetic<\/p>\n
beautiful<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
and inside you maybe I can forget<\/p>\n
the rejection the storms the words<\/p>\n
that well in my mind each night<\/p>\n
spoken by thousands of ex-lovers<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
enclose me<\/p>\n
in your immortal body<\/p>\n
of lace and flowers<\/p>\n
cast off the blanket<\/p>\n
and drape me in the winds<\/p>\n
of your nakedness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Robert Beveridge we lay in a bed of lace and flowers the only substantial part the blanket that keeps the old man wind from your small body my hands are warm and I touch you but (forgive me) they are frail with age while you my love will never grow old will always be young, energetic beautiful and inside you maybe I can forget the rejection the storms the words that well in my mind each night spoken by thousands of ex-lovers enclose me in your immortal body of lace and flowers cast off the blanket…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/1109"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}