{"id":2613,"date":"2026-06-08T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:26:35","slug":"i-like-to-believe-they-will-weep-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"I like to believe they will weep: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2613\" class=\"elementor elementor-2613\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c37b87a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c37b87a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cfb0226\" data-id=\"cfb0226\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ff4b9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5ff4b9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I like to believe they will weep<\/p><p>when they lay me to rest<\/p><p>but I\u2019m afraid they will only cry<\/p><p>if they once found me pretty.<\/p><p>\u201cBeautiful girl,\u201d those people would say,<\/p><p>\u201cSuch a shame.\u201d<\/p><p>And perhaps still only if I remained pretty,<\/p><p>laying there in an open coffin,<\/p><p>young, pale, and peaceful.<\/p><p>Dead is their favorite view of innocence,<\/p><p>no potential for corruption.<\/p><p>Tragedy is their favorite aesthetic,<\/p><p>offered up in the form of a young girl\u2019s death.<\/p><p>I would like to believe they will weep<\/p><p>but perhaps I would have to die now.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to believe they will weep when they lay me to rest but I\u2019m afraid they will only cry if they once found me pretty. \u201cBeautiful girl,\u201d those people would say, \u201cSuch a shame.\u201d And perhaps still only if I remained pretty, laying there in an open coffin, young, pale, and peaceful. Dead is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets","category-writingtips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fulloflit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}