{"id":20970,"date":"2023-05-29T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20970"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:43:04","slug":"memorial-trench-poets-by-edgell-rickword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2023\/05\/29\/memorial-trench-poets-by-edgell-rickword\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial: Trench Poets, by Edgell Rickword"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>Trench Poets<\/strong>, by Edgell Rickword\r\n<blockquote><p><br>I knew a man, he was my chum,\r\n<br>but he grew blacker every day,\r\n<br>and would not brush the flies away,\r\n<br>nor blanch however fierce the hum\r\n<br>of passing shells; I used to read,\r\n<br>to rouse him, random things from Donne\u2014\r\n<br>like \u201cGet with child a mandrake-root.\u201d\r\n<br>But you can tell he was far gone,\r\n<br>for he lay gaping, mackerel-eyed,\r\n<br>and stiff, and senseless as a post\r\n<br>even when that old poet cried\r\n<br>\u201cI long to talk with some old lover\u2019s ghost.\u201d\r\n<p>\r\n<br>I tried the Elegies one day,\r\n<br>But he, because he heard me say:\r\n<br>\u201cWhat needst thou have no more covering than a man?\u201d\r\n<br>grinned nastily, and so I knew\r\n<br>the worms had got his brains at last.\r\n<br>There was one thing that I might do\r\n<br>to starve the worms; I racked my head\r\n<br>for healthy things and quoted Maud.\r\n<br>His grin got worse and I could see\r\n<br>he sneered at passion\u2019s purity.\r\n<br>He stank so badly, though we were great chums\r\n<br>I had to leave him; then rats ate his thumbs.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger once again provides a poem for the day.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-litchrachoor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20972,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20970\/revisions\/20972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}