Oh, come with me and be my love,
\nFor Saturday night–that’s enough.
\nNext week, I’ve got a paper due,
\nA service gig, an interview too.
\n“Come with me”: remember, from our course?
\n(Also a pun, which I’d better not force.)
\nYes, I deleted “live”–but you can stay
\n‘Til ten. Then I’ll work on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9.
\nSlippers and buckles of the finest gold:
\nOne day you’ll have those, and someone to hold.
\nBut I’m by myself now; the market’s tight;
\nFor now, I’ve got to focus, network, fight.
\nWait ’til we’re forty, and then maybe
\nYou can be my love and live with me.<\/p>\n
[For ease of reference, here’s the Marlowe original<\/a> and previous replies by Walter Ralegh<\/a>, C. Day Lewis,<\/a> William Carlos Williams<\/a>, and Odgen Nash.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, come with me and be my love, For Saturday night–that’s enough. Next week, I’ve got a paper due, A service gig, an interview too. “Come with me”: remember, from our course? (Also a pun, which I’d better not force.) Yes, I deleted “live”–but you can stay ‘Til ten. Then I’ll work on my r\u00e9sum\u00e9. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}