{"id":367,"date":"2006-12-12T22:39:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2006\/12\/12\/six-apologies-lord\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T05:39:28","slug":"six-apologies-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/six-apologies-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Apologies, Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this poem this evening and it really struck a nerve. It&#8217;s copied below, but I found it <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050508040550\/www.shanecavanaugh.org\/literature\/poetry\/olena-kalytiak-davis\/six-apologies-lord.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Six Apologies, Lord<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Olena Kalytiak Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I Have Loved My Horrible Self, Lord.<br \/>\nI Rose, Lord, And I Rose, Lord, And I,<br \/>\nDropt. Your Requirements, Lord. &#8216;Spite Your Requirements, Lord,<br \/>\nI Have Loved The Low Voltage Of The Moon, Lord,<br \/>\nUntil There Was No Moon Intensity Left, Lord, No Moon Intensity Left<br \/>\nFor You, Lord. I Have Loved The Frivolous, The Fleeting, The Frightful<br \/>\nClouds. Lord, I Have Loved Clouds! Do Not Forgive Me, Do Not<br \/>\nForgive Me LordandLover, HarborandMaster, GuardianandBread, Do Not.<br \/>\nHold Me, Lord, O, Hold Me<\/p>\n<p>Accountable, Lord. I Am<br \/>\nAccountable. Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Lord It Over Me,<br \/>\nLord It Over Me, Lord. Feed Me<\/p>\n<p>Hope, Lord. Feed Me<br \/>\nHope, Lord, Or Break My Teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Break My Teeth, Sir,<\/p>\n<p>In This My Mouth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this poem this evening and it really struck a nerve. It&#8217;s copied below, but I found it here. Six Apologies, Lord Olena Kalytiak Davis I Have Loved My Horrible Self, Lord. I Rose, Lord, And I Rose, Lord, And I, Dropt. Your Requirements, Lord. &#8216;Spite Your Requirements, Lord, I Have Loved The Low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-5V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}