{"id":1076,"date":"2022-11-16T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:53:44","slug":"wanting-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/wanting-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanting It All"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0[at the Old Depot Restaurant, the menu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0offers a “You Get It All” garden salad]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How can I not want that, I wonder,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n recalling how my first wife\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n would warn, “you can’t have it all,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n you’re chasing rainbows, you know,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n nobody can have it all.”<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n And now this menu–<\/span><\/p>\n only, as I read the description,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I wonder if perhaps I <\/span>could<\/span><\/i> get it all,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n but without the anchovies\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and jalapeno peppers, and then\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I begin to wonder what that might mean:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n Wanting it all, I think,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n wanting<\/span><\/i> it all–<\/span><\/p>\n that’s one thing, but aren’t there always\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n anchovies and jalapeno peppers?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And, I think, if I really understood that\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I might have an answer for my first wife,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n though we’re long since parted,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and I still want it all\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n like Adam and Eve, there in the garden,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n naked and hungry before the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0[at the Old Depot Restaurant, the menu\u00a0 \u00a0offers a “You Get It All” garden salad] How can I not want that, I wonder,\u00a0 recalling how my first wife\u00a0 would warn, “you can’t have it all,\u00a0\u00a0 you’re chasing rainbows, you know,\u00a0 nobody can have it all.” And now this menu– only, as I read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[11],"coauthors":[78],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n