{"id":8825,"date":"2025-11-29T02:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:22:54","slug":"poem-taming-of-the-shrewd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/poem-taming-of-the-shrewd\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Taming of the Shrewd"},"content":{"rendered":"
The shrewdness of winning and losing is not a natural ally in love and relationships…<\/p>\n
Taming of the Shrewd<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cWe can cleave as one, or cleave as won, but we can\u2019t due both.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Cleave Jones<\/p>\n
\u00d8 my love \nCould you be \nA little amor \nShrewd \nSaid no \nWon ever \nWon over \nBuy the gravity \nAnd cunning \nOf wily coyote \nFalling for it \n\u00d8 the gravity \nAnd other \nA sordid \nLooney tunes \nThere is nothing \nAmor dangerous \nThan being rolled \nPlayed \nIn whatever \nMight be \nWon\u2019s doody \nIn tiredly passable \nSoully to be couched \nIn living \nRoom \nTo be entertaining \nAsleep at the we\u2019ll \nDue this \nOr due that \nThe ultimate intimate \nCon sequence \nOf walking that lyin\u2019 \nIn the thick of \nLikely or lovely \nIn taming of the shrewd \nWe\u2019re one \nCalls home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"