{"id":252536,"date":"2022-09-04T20:08:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=252536"},"modified":"2022-09-04T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:08:33","slug":"ah-the-freshness-in-the-face-of-leaving-a-task-undone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/09\/04\/ah-the-freshness-in-the-face-of-leaving-a-task-undone\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A poem by Fernando Pessoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!<br>To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!<br>What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable!<br>I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.<br>I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,<br>Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn\u2019t come.<br>I\u2019m free, and against organized, clothed society.<br>I\u2019m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.<br>It\u2019s too late to be at either of the two meetings where I should have been at the same time,<br>Deliberately at the same time&#8230;<br>No matter, I\u2019ll stay here dreaming verses and smiling in italics.<br>This spectator aspect of life is so amusing!<br>I can\u2019t even light the next cigarette&#8230; If it\u2019s an action,<br>It can wait for me, along with the others, in the non-meeting called life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>\u00a9 Translation: 1998, Richard Zenith<br \/>From: Fernando Pessoa &amp; Co. \u2013 Selected Poems<br \/>Publisher: Grove Press, New York, 1998<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Fernando Pessoa Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!What a refuge it is to be completely unreliable!I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/09\/04\/ah-the-freshness-in-the-face-of-leaving-a-task-undone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}