{"id":14102,"date":"2022-08-06T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=14102"},"modified":"2022-08-06T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T10:27:42","slug":"poetry-haley-hodges-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/poetry-haley-hodges-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Haley Hodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Faking It <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Cleopatra rolled<br \/>\nOut of the rug, she thought:<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry! Even if<br \/>\nI do not enjoy your performance,<br \/>\nYou will enjoy mine\u2014a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to credit myself<br \/>\nAs an actress, but the truth<br \/>\nAbout men is: I\u2019ve yet<br \/>\nTo meet one unwilling<br \/>\nTo believe he is a singularly<br \/>\nExceptional lover\u2014<em>yeah, baby<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I am your captain aboard the Beguile,<br \/>\nCruising down that long denial<br \/>\nWith no wish to make things<br \/>\nWorse by undeceiving<br \/>\nYou\u2014<em>mm, hail Caesar<\/em>\u2014<br \/>\nI offer half-lidded eyes and<br \/>\nAll the right sounds at all<br \/>\nThe right times and rely<br \/>\nOn the fact that truly<br \/>\nWhat you pay close attention to<br \/>\n(Unduly) is yourself. You\u2019re watching<br \/>\nMe, but it\u2019s astounding\u2014genuinely\u2014<br \/>\nWhat you won\u2019t see, though you should\u2014<br \/>\n<em>There, right there, that\u2019s good<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Charming, cunning queen, lay the tracks,<br \/>\nSet the stage and land the scene. He\u2019ll believe<br \/>\nBecause he wants to\u2014<em>oh, I want you<\/em>\u2014<br \/>\nAnd yet you\u2019ll wish that you\u2019d stayed home\u2014<br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t worth the trip to Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faking It When Cleopatra rolled Out of the rug, she thought: Don\u2019t worry! Even if I do not enjoy your performance, You will enjoy mine\u2014a lot. I\u2019d like to credit myself As an actress, but the truth About men is: I\u2019ve yet To meet one unwilling To believe he is a singularly Exceptional lover\u2014yeah, baby. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":14131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3935,3937,3942,3945,3950,3951,4124,7341],"class_list":["post-14102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-haley","tag-haley-hodges","tag-haley-hodges-cassandra-voices","tag-haley-hodges-faking-it","tag-haley-hodges-poet","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-hodges","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}