{"id":2147,"date":"2025-05-09T15:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/some-things-i-wont-do\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:56","slug":"some-things-i-wont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/some-things-i-wont-do\/","title":{"rendered":"some things i won\u2019t do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>pay exorbitant costs for cable tv<\/p>\n<p>watch Netflix after it hosted the movie cuties<\/p>\n<p>travel 8,000 miles for love again<\/p>\n<p>drive thousands of miles<\/p>\n<p>work out with heavy weights anymore<\/p>\n<p>seek a woman on a dating site<\/p>\n<p>or misuse the sanctity of church by going to one just to try to meet a woman<br>\nthough maybe one day I could get so intolerably lonely I&#8217;d sacrifice my principles on the alter of love, lol<\/p>\n<p>be a joiner of anything<\/p>\n<p>be controlled by anyone<\/p>\n<p>be a fan of any celebrities<\/p>\n<p>think of myself as better than anyone<\/p>\n<p>stop believing in our country often you get the justice you can afford<\/p>\n<p>be okay with politicians who get rich as public servants and seem more like opportunists than patriots<\/p>\n<p>try to be better than others at anything<\/p>\n<p>feel the need to try to get my poems published<\/p>\n<p>have a fear of dying<\/p>\n<p>believe that a religion or spiritual path is the only way<\/p>\n<p>believe a loving God would ever send anyone to hell or be okay with  eternal damnation<\/p>\n<p>take testosterone replacement therapy<br>\nthough I wouldn\u2019t mind having the extra T<\/p>\n<p>watch sports any more that are violent<br>\nthough I used to be an avid fan of combat sports<\/p>\n<p>go to a senior center<br>\nsenior centers just don\u2019t work for me<\/p>\n<p>stop working out and giving up on fitness<\/p>\n<p>get overweight<\/p>\n<p>stop eating ice cream, chocolate and occasionally pastries<br>\ncan&#8217;t see being too spartan when it comes to<br>\nsweets<\/p>\n<p>stop drinking coffee <\/p>\n<p>stop taking 48 grams of protein powder daily and vitamins and supplements<\/p>\n<p>hang out with guys and shoot the breeze<br>\ndon&#8217;t feel the need for male comradery<br>\nand small talk daily bores me<\/p>\n<p>except with a woman I love with whom<br>\nsmall talk forever would be enchanting<\/p>\n<p>give up on living and feel like killing myself<\/p>\n<p>drink alcohol or get high on drugs<\/p>\n<p>insult people in person or on the Internet<\/p>\n<p>lose my temper in an auto accident or a close call<\/p>\n<p>stop writing poems as long as still I&#8217;m able to keep writing them<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pay exorbitant costs for cable tv watch Netflix after it hosted the movie cuties travel 8,000 miles for love again drive thousands of miles work out with heavy weights anymore seek a woman on a dating site or misuse the sanctity of church by going to one just to try to meet a woman though&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/some-things-i-wont-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}