{"id":1057,"date":"2014-01-16T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2021-08-05T00:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:27:34","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2014\/01\/16\/poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>i went to the cupboard and the cupboard was bare, nothing there. i ran from the rat race and the clock struck one. darth and ella vader like to go up and down up and down. they\u2019re really going places, those two. i want a vacation, i\u2019ll fly off and take it. you sit on my egg. you try not to break it. you stay and be faithful. i\u2019m hardly the sharpest tack in the box, but at least i don\u2019t wear my sunglasses on top of my head in place of a hairband, just to look cool.<\/p>\n<p>i told you the cupboard was bare.<\/p>\n<p>listen. that girl was running a cheatin ring up in there, i don\u2019t really know what else you want me to do. it\u2019s one thing being sick to come to your job every day, it\u2019s another \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to be in the middle of something you know is wrong. let the chips fall where they may.<\/p>\n<p>getting my metaphors mixed (like a cocktail).<\/p>\n<p>i stop to listen and there\u2019s nothing there. calm, maybe, but nothing for my belly.<\/p>\n<p>and the babies just popping out all over the place.<br \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><strong>Naomi Buck Palagi<\/strong> has been interested in \u201cshaping crafts\u201d such as woodworking, sewing, writing and singing since her childhood in rural Kentucky. She became focused on poetry as an amazingly flexible vehicle for thought and communication, and has work published in journals such as <em>Spoon River Review, Otoliths, Moria, Eleven Eleven<\/em>, and<em> Blue Fifth Review. <\/em>Additionally, she has two chapbooks, <em>Silver Roof Tantrum<\/em> (dancing girl press, 2010), and <em>Darkness in the Tent<\/em> (Dusie Kollectiv 5, 2011). She lives in Northwest Indiana with her husband and two young children, and works days as a secretary at a college in Gary while pursuing a master\u2019s degree.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i went to the cupboard and the cupboard was bare, nothing there. i ran from the rat race and the clock struck one. darth and ella vader like to go up and down up and down. they\u2019re really going places,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}