{"id":14171,"date":"2022-09-05T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:48:43","slug":"poetry-kevin-higgins-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/poetry-kevin-higgins-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Kevin Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Memorial to Myself<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been away toasting tables lined<br \/>\nwith the pricier variety of imbecile;<br \/>\nhumouring old buzzards in Aran sweaters<br \/>\nand cranky caps<br \/>\nuntil their sweaters collapsed<br \/>\nthreadbare off their bastard backs.<br \/>\nI have cut ribbons for guys<br \/>\nfloating balloons across the town square<br \/>\nand calling it dance.<br \/>\nI have eaten with people of enormous importance<br \/>\nand forgotten most of their names.<\/p>\n<p>I did not shrivel like the rest of them.<br \/>\nThough they thought they had me<br \/>\nI was not bought and sold at the market stall<br \/>\nwhere you can get (third hand)<br \/>\nFianna Fail senators cheaper<br \/>\nthan Mayo flags two weeks after<br \/>\nan All Ireland defeat.<\/p>\n<p>I am again what I was before<br \/>\nand secretly always was<br \/>\nthough I sometimes had to hide it.<br \/>\nI did not kill the dream I dreamt with those others<br \/>\nnot all of whom made it this far.<br \/>\nTonight I consult their ghosts.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: Higgins and Ivana Bacik campaigning during the 2011 presidential race.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial to Myself I have been away toasting tables lined with the pricier variety of imbecile; humouring old buzzards in Aran sweaters and cranky caps until their sweaters collapsed threadbare off their bastard backs. I have cut ribbons for guys floating balloons across the town square and calling it dance. I have eaten with people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":14172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4087,5184,5187,5194,5203,5210,5219,5223,7341],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-higgins","tag-kevin","tag-kevin-higgins","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-irish-poet","tag-kevin-higgins-michael-d","tag-kevin-higgins-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins-satire","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/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=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}