{"id":8865,"date":"2024-07-31T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8865"},"modified":"2024-07-31T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T05:40:17","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8865","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Azzam Alkadhi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My second kiss.<br>The less said about my first, the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My second kiss and my first girlfriend.<br>Maybe not girlfriend,<br>I really don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I remember wet snogs<br>And my tongue scraping against braces.<br>I remember holding hands<br>Outside KFC on Gloucester Road.<br>I remember buying her flowers.<br>I remember struggling to get my hand down her trousers.<br>I remember being nervous and embarrassed<br>All the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I remember seeing her photo,<br>Years later,<br>In the Evening Standard.<br>I don\u2019t remember why it was there,<br>But I remember sitting on the Tube<br>And vaguely recognising that face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That\u2019s all I remember really.<br>I don\u2019t know if she remembers much about me.<br>And I don\u2019t really care.<br>But it\u2019s an inextricable part of both of our stories.<br>Paths which are probably so blindingly different,<br>Or unique.<br>But which were vaguely the same<br>For a few short weeks<br>Back in 1999. Ish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>AZZAM ALKADHI<\/strong>\u00a0(@autistic.peacock.poetry) was born in London, UK, to Iraqi parents, and most recently spent eleven years living in Bogota, Colombia, before moving to Dubai last year. So he&#8217;s clearly confused. Ever since he was ten and his cat died, poetry has been the easiest way for him to process and understand the complexities of a world that can seem overwhelmingly perplexing for somebody on the spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azzam Alkadhi My second kiss.The less said about my first, the better. My second kiss and my first girlfriend.Maybe not girlfriend,I really don\u2019t know. I remember wet snogsAnd my tongue scraping against braces.I remember holding handsOutside KFC on Gloucester Road.I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8864,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2iZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8865\/revisions\/8873"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}