{"id":1542,"date":"2009-10-28T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2009-10-28T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:35:09","slug":"refrigerator-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Refrigerator poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/w-first-folio.jpg' title='w-first-folio.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/w-first-folio.jpg' alt='w-first-folio.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A company named Fridge Fun in Santa Rosa, California, makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesandjigsaws.com\/product_info.php\/Magnetic_Poetry_-_Shakespeare_Edition?osCsid=c2dgha3678d5fohrvprtstsat7\">magnetic poetry kits<\/a> for refrigerator doors. One such kit includes 240 words taken from Shakespeare. One arranges the magnetic words to make one&#8217;s own poems. I had one of these kits on my refrigerator door in San Francisco, and a friend had written a 15-line poem on the door. When I moved, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to disassemble the poem, so I transferred the magnetic words one by one to a cookie sheet to preserve the poem. I finally got around to typing the poem into the computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refrigerator poem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All errors lost in this world<br \/>\nHath always love as a stage.<br \/>\nThus such human sorrow protests<br \/>\nWicked men who dream<br \/>\nAbout created women<\/p>\n<p>What torture shall plague it self unto<br \/>\nBrave riddance whence I am damned<br \/>\nFor playing love&#8217;s rotten pomp<br \/>\nDiscretion will own me nothing:<br \/>\nTrouble never toileth too much mercy<\/p>\n<p>Pray thine rose dost kill bad art<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis mad the night&#8217;s flesh became<br \/>\nAlas ambition breaks when a new light is made<br \/>\nFit and true in me<br \/>\nMy most strained heart is good for thee.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; James Michael Gregg, San Francisco, 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, here are the very few words left over from the kit that were not used in this poem: Part, Circumstance, It, Was, The, At, Neither, Philosopher, Nor, Borrower, Lend, Comedy, An, Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company named Fridge Fun in Santa Rosa, California, makes magnetic poetry kits for refrigerator doors. One such kit includes 240 words taken from Shakespeare. One arranges the magnetic words to make one&#8217;s own poems. I had one of these kits on my refrigerator door in San Francisco, and a friend had written a 15-line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Refrigerator poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}