{"id":6998,"date":"2022-08-12T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2022-08-06T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T00:51:47","slug":"richard-long-requiem-for-french-horn-and-clarinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6998","title":{"rendered":"Richard Long &#8220;Requiem for French Horn and Clarinet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Richard Long<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Requiem for French Horn and Clarinet<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The other day I saw<br \/>\nR\u0101fe on the shoulder<br \/>\nof a road, holding a pistol<br \/>\nlike a French horn,<br \/>\nnot like back in the day<br \/>\nwhen he rode on the rack<br \/>\nof my bike, facing traffic,<br \/>\nplaying his instrument<br \/>\nand I would stop<br \/>\nto play along on my clarinet<br \/>\nto fast cars and RVs<br \/>\nthat slowed to wave, clap,<br \/>\nand toss coins to us<br \/>\non the shoulder of the road.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Richard Long<\/strong><\/span> <em>is currently writing poems about ghost bikes and bikers and for the last 26 years has edited 2River, quarterly publishing The 2River View and occasionally publishing individual writers in the 2River Chapbook Series.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Long Requiem for French Horn and Clarinet The other day I saw R\u0101fe on the shoulder of a road, holding a pistol like a French horn, not like back in the day when he rode on the rack of my bike, facing traffic, playing his instrument and I would stop to play along on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[749],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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