{"id":25284,"date":"2019-11-12T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25284"},"modified":"2021-02-25T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:11:05","slug":"the-laddie-reckoned-himself-a-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/12\/the-laddie-reckoned-himself-a-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Laddie Reckoned Himself A Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"

So whilst I was in St. Charles this weekend<\/a>, I stayed at the Tru by Hilton again<\/a>, mainly because of its proximity to the historic Main Street and because I can get Hilton points for staying there. Not that I pay attention to the accumulation of Hilton Points nor do I expect to use them, but I have been conditioned to accumulate points as ends in themselves.<\/p>\n

Instead of going for a run or hitting the little fitness center room, I spent an hour or so pounding coffee in the hotel’s common area, scratching lines on my notorious legal pad. Later that evening, I was in the coffee shop listening to Janet Evra, and I scratched a couple of lines and added a little code, and I finished the poem<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Which was a great relief, as I have been working and scratching at this poem a long, long time.<\/p>\n

How long?<\/p>\n

A tidied version of a draft is on the cover of Coffee House Memories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Once can find behind the lined notepad pages behind the initial lines notes taken during a meeting at the Republic Pregnancy Resource Center Happy Feet 5K committee in 2017. So, yeah, it has likely been percolating for many years.<\/p>\n

But I am happy to have finished it. It might be only the third poem I’ve written in the last ten years (only “Springfield Panera Bread BDU<\/a>” and “Canny<\/a>” come to mind).<\/p>\n

When I showed it to my beautiful wife, she said it was good. She did not roll her eyes when she said it like she did when reading my cousin’s poetry<\/a>, but I’ll take what I can get these days.<\/p>\n

In my more fatalistic moments, which are more like fatalistic minutes or hours or days rather than moments, I think this might be the last poem I ever write given the pacing over the last twenty years. In the interims between my fatalism, though, I think I should make some time to sit in coffee shops with a pad and a pen since I rather enjoyed it, especially as I actively developed this poem.<\/p>\n

Oh, and as far as the poem itself goes, I’m not going to share it on the blog at this time. I’m going to tighten a couple turns of phrase and submit it to poetry journals for a bit and see if I can get it, you know, published<\/em>. Should that route fail, gentle reader, I’ll share it here so someone other than me, my wife, and a set of editorial assistants can read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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