{"id":782,"date":"2018-06-26T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveread.me\/?p=782"},"modified":"2018-06-26T09:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T14:03:46","slug":"schadenfreude-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/schadenfreude-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/a>Schadenfreude sucks – but the tempest surrounding the chump with the tallow-toned dome, which is im-fucking-possible not to write about, has resulted in getting a poem published; to wit, Indolent Books<\/strong> accepted The Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone Spur<\/em> as their Feb. 12, 2018 entry in the What Rough Beast<\/a><\/strong> series.<\/p>\n

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The Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone Spur<\/h3>\n

Having ordered a parade of his own,
\nTrump is transformed
\nfrom Putin’s Puppet,
\nto Kim’s Clone.<\/p>\n

Now, we wonder …<\/p>\n

Will he ask bids
\nfor a new pyramid,
\nor coldly evict, then
\nre-brand Grant’s Tomb?\n<\/p><\/div>\n

He spoils even schadenfreude<\/h4>\n

I’ll post this ditty here, even though that’ll render it untouchable by most other publications.<\/p>\n

\n

#RhymesWithChump<\/h3>\n

He spoils even schadenfreude,
\nthe balm we measure in scant small doses.
\nHis corrupt domain makes it gush from fire hoses.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

an ostrich plume in my tattered beret<\/h4>\n

That breaks a two year streak of “just missing the mark,” wherein some forty or fifty poems got returned to sender! I shall accept this as an ostrich plume in my tattered beret, now, and stop whining about the dull process of threading the publication-needle.<\/p>\n

\"Dave<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schadenfreude sucks – but the tempest surrounding the chump with the tallow-toned dome, which is im-fucking-possible not to write about, has resulted in getting a poem published; to wit, Indolent Books accepted The Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone Spur as their Feb. 12, 2018 entry in the What Rough Beast series. The Outer Borough Colonel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}