{"id":5473,"date":"1998-03-17T10:58:17","date_gmt":"1998-03-17T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/fiction\/tipsy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:20:07","slug":"tipsy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/verse\/tipsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tipsy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p class=\"pub-history-dates\">(written 9\/88; Webbed 10\/96)<p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"stanza\">\r\n<p>Broken bottle: light liqueur lies<\/p>\r\n<p>drying in a little puddle;<\/p>\r\n<p>Molly-doggy, in a muddle;<\/p>\r\n<p>Sally-puppy, seeking trouble;<\/p>\r\n<p>licking liquid, liking liquor<\/p>\r\n<p>lapping at the dripping ichor<\/p>\r\n<p>Molly lagging, lollygagging,<\/p>\r\n<p>dilly-dally, shilly-shally,<\/p>\r\n<p>roly-poly silly Sally<\/p>\r\n<p>willy-nilly, tripping, slipping,<\/p>\r\n<p>dropping; stopping; dizzy buzzing;<\/p>\r\n<p>Sally soon is busy dozing.<\/p>\r\n<p>Molly boggles; giggling, wobbles,<\/p>\r\n<p>slowing, stopping, yawning, napping.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\r\n<p>This was the first, and probably the best, poem I wrote in the \u201cMetrical Phonology of Poetry\u201d linguistics seminar at  Swarthmore, a combination poetry workshop and in-depth linguistics seminar. I was just playing with sounds of words, and it all came together rather nicely.<\/p>\r\n<p>I was chagrined to later learn that <i>ichor<\/i> is pronounced <i>EYE-kor<\/i> rather than <i>IH-kor<\/i>, but I think it works okay even with the long <i>i<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":19769,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5473","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20621,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5473\/revisions\/20621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}