{"id":861,"date":"2014-06-07T14:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T14:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:54:30","slug":"iasktheimpossible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/iasktheimpossible\/","title":{"rendered":"iasktheimpossible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I ask the impossible: love me forever.<br>Love me when all desire is gone.<br>Love me with the single-mindedness of a monk.<br>When the<a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/theworldissocrammedwithpeople\"> world<\/a> in its entirety,<br>and all that you hold sacred, advise you<br>against it: love me still more.<br>When <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/aworldthatmakesyoudeviant\">rage<\/a> fills you and has no name: love me.<br>When each step from your door to your job tires you\u2014<br>love me; and from job to home again.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/everythingappeared\">Love<\/a> me when you&#8217;re bored<br>when every woman you see is more <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/adayoncedawned\">beautiful<\/a> that the last,<br>or more <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/theusualsuspects\">pathetic<\/a>, love me as you always have:<br>not as admirer or judge, but with<br>the compassion you save for yourself<br>in your solitude.<br>Love me as you relish your loneliness,<br>the anticipation of your death,<br>mysteries of the flesh,<br>as it tears and mends.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/loveisajointexperience\">Love<\/a> me as your most treasured childhood memory\u2014<br>and if there is none to recall\u2014<br>imagine one, place me there with you.<br>Love me <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/ifyouinsist\">withered<\/a> as you loved me new.<br>Love me as if I were forever\u2014<br>and I will make the impossible<br>a simple act,<br>by loving you, loving you as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anacastillo.com\/ac\/indexNetscape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ana Castillo<\/a>, &#8220;I Ask the Impossible&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single-mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred, advise youagainst it: love me still more.When rage fills you and has no name: love me.When each step from your door to your job tires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/861\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}