Some say the world will end with a bang.
\nSome say a whimper.
\nFor them of us as gives a dang
\nabout what sort of knell gets rang,
\nwe’ve been sailing on a shrimper,
\nwatching how crustaceans die,
\nand seen how royal ladies simper
\nfishing for the open fly:
\nwe’ll take distemper.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
…or maybe…<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some say the world will end with a bang. Some say the world will end with a bang. Some say a whimper. For them of us as gives a dang about what sort of knell gets rang, we’ve been sailing on a shrimper, watching how crustaceans die, and seen how royal ladies simper fishing for the open fly: we’llRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSome say a whimper.
\nFrom watching as Sopranos sang,
\nrecalling when a loud knell rang,
\nI tend to have a violent temper.
\nBut if I really have to die,
\nwhat use is there in more distemper?
\nI might as well relax and try
\nto exit limper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"