{"id":353,"date":"2004-06-03T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=353"},"modified":"2004-06-03T16:55:34","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T15:55:34","slug":"are-my-lessons-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/are-my-lessons-done\/","title":{"rendered":"are my lessons done ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I met a woman long ago<br \/>\nher hair the black that black can go,<br \/>\nAre you a teacher of the heart?<br \/>\nSoft she answered no.<\/p>\n<p>I met a girl across the sea,<br \/>\nher hair the gold that gold can be,<br \/>\nAre you a teacher of the heart?<br \/>\nYes, but not for thee.<\/p>\n<p>I met a man who lost his mind<br \/>\nin some lost place I had to find,<br \/>\nfollow me the wise man said,<br \/>\nbut he walked behind.<\/p>\n<p>I walked into a hospital<br \/>\nwhere none was sick and none was well,<br \/>\nwhen at night the nurses left<br \/>\nI could not walk at all.<\/p>\n<p>Morning came and then came noon,<br \/>\ndinner time a scalpel blade<br \/>\nlay beside my silver spoon.<\/p>\n<p>Some girls wander by mistake<br \/>\ninto the mess that scalpels make.<br \/>\nAre you the teachers of my heart?<br \/>\nWe teach old hearts to break.<\/p>\n<p>One morning I woke up alone,<br \/>\nthe hospital and the nurses gone.<br \/>\nHave I carved enough my Lord?<br \/>\nChild, you are a bone.<\/p>\n<p>I ate and ate and ate,<br \/>\nno I did not miss a plate, well<br \/>\nHow much do these suppers cost?<br \/>\nWe&rsquo;ll take it out in hate.<\/p>\n<p>I spent my hatred everyplace,<br \/>\non every work on every face,<br \/>\nsomeone gave me wishes<br \/>\nand I wished for an embrace.<\/p>\n<p>Several girls embraced me, then<br \/>\nI was embraced by men,<br \/>\nIs my passion perfect?<br \/>\nNo, do it once again.<\/p>\n<p>I was handsome I was strong,<br \/>\nI knew the words of every song.<br \/>\nDid my singing please you?<br \/>\nNo, the words you sang were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Who is it whom I address,<br \/>\nwho takes down what I confess?<br \/>\nAre you the teachers of my heart?<br \/>\nWe teach old hearts to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Oh teachers are my lessons done?<br \/>\nI cannot do another one.<br \/>\nThey laughed and laughed and said, Well child,<br \/>\nare your lessons done?<br \/>\nare your lessons done?<br \/>\nare your lessons done?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>leonard cohen &#8211; teachers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a woman long ago her hair the black that black can go, Are you a teacher of the heart? Soft she answered no. I met a girl across the sea, her hair the gold that gold can be, Are you a teacher of the heart? Yes, but not for thee. I met a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unfinished-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julietterobert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}