{"id":97534,"date":"2012-10-06T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97534\/poem-changelings\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T06:42:11","slug":"poem-changelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/97534\/poem-changelings\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Changelings"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share collab poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0The muse line this week was “If I were trimmer and slimmer.”<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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CHANGELINGS<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I loved those swimmers all buff and quite tall,
\nespecially the ones who wore nothing at all
\nback in my nudist colony days, I recall;
\nwhich I really enjoyed, at least up until Fall.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

So I went on a diet and exercised heavily,
\nworked out under sheets with a woman named Beverly,
\ncontrolling my calorie intake quite cleverly.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

After awhile I’d lost much of my frieght,
\nwhich is to say I weighed in at less weight;
\nuntil I was perfect, and really felt great!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But Beverly dumped me. You see she liked plumpy,
\nand I was no longer as soft or as lumpy.
\nI was able to steal a girlfriend from Gumby
\nwho twisted, contorted in manner most comely.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But she was all green, and it rubbed off on me.
\nNor could I ever match her flexibility.
\nSo back to her claymation friends she did flee.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Was in the end all the sacrifice worth it?
\nI did get a lot, but it seemed like a surfeit.
\nSo I let myself go, and now Bev and I sure fit!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

A lesson was learned and it may bear repeating.
\nChanging yourself may become self-defeating.
\nSomewhere out there may be someone worth meeting
\nwho finds you, as you are, jumpstarts their hot heartbeating!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright October 6th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

The weightwatchers who gained a line: Bettie, Diane (2), tony.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was composed for the CPC Saturday Share collab poetry challenge. \u00a0The muse line this week was “If I were trimmer and slimmer.” CHANGELINGS I loved those swimmers all buff and quite tall, especially the ones who wore nothing at all back in my nudist colony days, I recall; which I really enjoyed, at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}