{"id":44,"date":"2014-07-03T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T00:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:36:22","slug":"what-did-you-just-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"What did you just say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d I hear you say<br \/>\nAnd my feelings are in disarray<br \/>\nI just came to see if you can<br \/>\nSort out this problem with my rent<\/p>\n<p>My landlord charges more this week<br \/>\nBut he hasn\u2019t fixed that nasty leak<br \/>\nIn my bathroom \u2013 so there\u2019s mould<br \/>\nThe heating\u2019s wonky and my kids are cold<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t own much and my clothes are old<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ve waited in line as I was told<br \/>\nSo it\u2019s hurtful and demeaning to hear you say<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do YOU want today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if you lived my life for a while<br \/>\nSuffered my indignities and still can smile<br \/>\nWill you try to treat people like me better?<br \/>\nAnd say instead as if we matter \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, how can I help you today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><cite><small>Donald Lee: May 29, 2014<\/small><\/cite><br \/>\n<cite><small> My response in verse to the post <a href=\"http:\/\/togetherindignity.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/29\/the-true-meaning-of-welcome\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/togetherindignity.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/29\/the-true-meaning-of-welcome\/<\/a><\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d I hear you say And my feelings are in disarray I just came to see if you can Sort out this problem with my rent My landlord charges more this week But he hasn\u2019t fixed that nasty leak In my bathroom \u2013 so there\u2019s mould The heating\u2019s wonky and my kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33,31,32,22,39,30,65],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poems","tag-donaldlee","tag-donaldllee","tag-emagines","tag-blognybox","tag-emagines-org","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}