{"id":2330,"date":"2010-07-02T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2010-07-02T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:09:57","slug":"if-i-thought-it-would-do-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2010\/07\/if-i-thought-it-would-do-any-good\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Thought It Would Do Any Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought it would do any good<br \/>\nI would send flowers daily for a week<br \/>\nAnd then have them arrive on the hour, every hour<br \/>\nEach bloom bearing a single word<\/p>\n<p>If I believed it would help<br \/>\nI would hire a small orchestra to play<br \/>\nMariachi songs in the street<br \/>\nOutside your well-proportioned London flat<\/p>\n<p>If it would make any difference at all<br \/>\nI would send chocolates by the box<br \/>\nFragrance alone causing your mouth to water<br \/>\nAs they extricate themselves from artful wrappings<\/p>\n<p>If I thought it would impress you<br \/>\nI would become monstrously fit<br \/>\nSport a hard, muscled body with pecs, abs, biceps<br \/>\nTo go with my already perfect backside<\/p>\n<p>If it would cause your passing glance to linger<br \/>\nI would dress sumptuously, start trends every day<br \/>\nWear devastating outfits, shoes the envy of fashionistas<br \/>\nThe precise cut of my Haute Couture an Italian state secret<\/p>\n<p>If there was any chance<br \/>\nOf a rendezvous, or a tryst<br \/>\nIn the tree opposite your window, I would climb all the way along to the end of the very long branch<br \/>\nFearing not gravity, but the confirmation of attraction<\/p>\n<p>If money mattered,<br \/>\nMaxing out a series of credit cards, just because I can<br \/>\nWe would fly twice around the world<br \/>\nEnjoying the most luxury it is possible to experience and survive<\/p>\n<p>If I think it will do any good<br \/>\nThen I have written these dreams<br \/>\nOn the side of an elephant in foot-high neon green letters<br \/>\nTraffic stilled to watch her pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deekster\/4223424646\/\" title=\"Footprints by deanwhitbread, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4053\/4223424646_079a96c78b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Footprints\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I thought it would do any good I would send flowers daily for a week And then have them arrive on the hour, every hour Each bloom bearing a single word If I believed it would help I would hire a small orchestra to play Mariachi songs in the street Outside your well-proportioned London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[447,36,209],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-attraction","tag-love","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}