{"id":4051,"date":"2017-10-08T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-10-08T20:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T19:10:31","slug":"does-kafkas-ghost-roam-josefovs-streets-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/does-kafkas-ghost-roam-josefovs-streets-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Kafkas Ghost Roam Josefovs Streets Unhappy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Does Kafkas Ghost Roam Josefovs Streets&quot; - a poem from Prague\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/in-020QcEZg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kafka had his dying wish ignored&#8230; and the worlds literature is all the better for it&#8230;Bringing this verse from a few years back in Prague back to the site!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burn them all, the words that I have written<br \/>\nWhen this, my life, it has come to an end<br \/>\nAn earnest request made by Frank Kafka<br \/>\nSolemnly to his good friend.<\/p>\n<p>That man, to spite his genius to him unknown<br \/>\nThought his written words, his stories, not good<br \/>\nHis life&#8217;s writing seemed to him but a waste<br \/>\nBe burned on death his writings should.<\/p>\n<p>It seems his friend to him did not listen<br \/>\nAnd after Kafka&#8217;s death did not do the deed<br \/>\nOne wonders, does his soul roam Josefovs streets unhappy<br \/>\nA an enthralled world his unworthy words they read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kafka had his dying wish ignored&#8230; and the worlds literature is all the better for it&#8230;Bringing this verse from a few years back in Prague back to the site! Burn them all, the words that I have written When this, my life, it has come to an end An earnest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,474,6],"tags":[3909,3906,3907,1276,3908,466,464,526],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-from-prague","category-prague-video-poems","category-video-poetry","tag-concrete-poetry","tag-franz-kafka","tag-karka","tag-poem","tag-poem-on-kafka","tag-poems-on-prague","tag-prague","tag-video-poem","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-13l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":286,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/arched-ceilings-of-the-pinkas-synagogue\/","url_meta":{"origin":4051,"position":0},"title":"Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th May 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\",\"Arched Ceilings of the Pinkas Synagogue\",\"Pragues picturesque Pinkas Synagogue in the Josefov district is now a museum to the fallen from the Shoah \/ Holocaust, to the Jewish vistims of the Nazi genocide in World War 2. 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