{"id":3717,"date":"2025-02-22T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2025-02-22T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T23:37:19","slug":"you-keep-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/02\/22\/you-keep-asking\/","title":{"rendered":"You Keep Asking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

You Keep Asking<\/strong><\/p>\n

You Keep Asking
\nThe Creator
\nIf You Should<\/p>\n

Keep Trying
\nTo Write
\nThat Goofy
\nNovel<\/p>\n

About a Loser
\nWho\u2019s Spent
\na Lifetime
\nSchlepping
\nBig Macs and Fries,<\/p>\n

After Trashing His
\nLawyer License
\nwith Carelessness
\nand Duplicity
\nand
\nHis Marriage
\nwith The Same,<\/p>\n

Who Tries to
\nEnd It All
\nwith an
\nOverdose of
\nBalloon Gas,<\/p>\n

Who is Met
\non The Other Side by
\nHis Boisterous Guides,
\nWho Send Him Back
\nto Start
\nThe First Church of
\nJeebus,<\/p>\n

to Minister to
\nOther Seeming
\nWastrels,<\/p>\n

About
\nHow Much
\nThe Creator
\nAdores Them and
\nCelebrates Their
\nBeing.<\/p>\n

You Keep Asking
\nThe Creator
\nIf You Should<\/p>\n

Keep trying
\nTo Write
\nThat Goofy
\nNovel.\u2028
\nThe Creator
\nKeeps Giving You
\nThe Same Answer,<\/p>\n

The Same Answer
\nGiven To All Offspring of
\nThe Creator:<\/p>\n

Do You Want To?<\/p>\n

(Photo by Nusaseom; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  You Keep Asking You Keep Asking The Creator If You Should Keep Trying To Write That Goofy Novel About a Loser Who\u2019s Spent a Lifetime Schlepping Big Macs and Fries, After Trashing His Lawyer License with Carelessness and Duplicity and His Marriage with The Same, Who Tries to End It All with an Overdose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t