{"id":8989,"date":"2025-12-14T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:07:39","slug":"poem-knot-the-boss-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/poem-knot-the-boss-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Knot the Boss of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last night, at a poetry reading, a fellow poet, Joe Sparks, introduced his poem as “the last poem of 2025.” This sparked this poem…<\/p>\n
Knot the Boss of Me<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
He declared \nWith surprising certainty \nSow free from doubt \nHeed ridden his last poem of the year \nSuch a confidence, man \nI’m not sure I no \nWho you work for \nIn what likely hood \nAnd what \nOver seeing \nAt any rate \nIt peers clear too me \nDam well knot the boss of me \nIf there is won thing \nI new \nAmor, then a few daze remaining \nEven in the dead of winter \nAs a season of wrapping up \nEvery our \nCloser \nTo spring \nFrom that omni-present lover \nThe soul certainty \nSurprising<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"