I’ve been writing poems this summer and I wrote this for a friend who is falling in love. It’s a rough draft, but it’s so sunny and warm out that i don’t care about the parts that don’t work.<\/p>\n
This Is Going to Break My Heart, but Ain’t it Grand<\/strong><\/p>\n She loves pancakes, Before I even start mixing the batter I tend to pour the syrup more generously than she does I’ve been writing poems this summer and I wrote this for a friend who is falling in love. It’s a rough draft, but it’s so sunny and warm out that i don’t care about the parts that don’t work. This Is Going to Break My Heart, but Ain’t it Grand She loves pancakes, especially when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-written"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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especially when I make them tall and fluffy
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but not so big that there isn’t room
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on her plate for two slices of bacon
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or a couple links of sausage,
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an indulgence I knew we both loved,
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but I only just found out that she loves bacon more,
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just like I do.<\/p>\n
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I take the butter out from her fridge
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so it will soften up under the knife,
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and melt beneath the syrup
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I warmed up the way she taught me to.
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It makes her smile to see the the glass bottle
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bobbing in the heated pan of water.<\/p>\n
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over the three or sometimes four pancakes
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we’ve stacked up on the dishes I grabbed from her drying rack
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and placed on the kitchen table across from each other.
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\u201cIt looks just like a table for two,\u201d
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she says laughing between bites
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And it’s so amazing to me
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the way her mouth gets sticky
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just like mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"