{"id":6615,"date":"2021-02-22T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2021-02-22T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:56:14","slug":"my-sad-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/my-sad-captains\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sad Captains"},"content":{"rendered":"

My drapes are still closed although the party ended many days ago<\/p>\n

The clothes that I wear reek of piss and sweat after my nights of excess<\/p>\n

My sad captains have returned to their sharp senses<\/p>\n

And have left me here in this room as I have abandoned mine<\/p>\n

I live from one fuck dream to the next ignoring the midnight bell<\/p>\n

That might have awoken me and with labour improved my shivering hell<\/p>\n

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Chris Jacobs (1974) – this was his last known poem\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Note<\/em><\/p>\n

Antony and Cleopatra – <\/i>Mark Antony speaks about his drinking partners: “Come, let’s have one other gaudy night; call to me all my sad captains; fill our bowls; once more, let’s mock the midnight bell.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My drapes are still closed although the party ended many days ago The clothes that I wear reek of piss and sweat after my nights of excess My sad captains have returned to their sharp senses And have left me here in this room as I have abandoned mine I live from one fuck dream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}