{"id":1092,"date":"2016-04-30T01:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2021-08-11T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:16:01","slug":"polyester-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/30\/polyester-a-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyester: A Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>POLYESTER: A LEGACY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are with your mother in a dressing room in Sears. It is dark out and the store<br>is emptying. You are on the floor, fingering the carpet fibers while she is trying<br>and failing to find something that works. This is how you know it is hard to<br>find anything that works, and sometimes you have to take what almost does.<br>When you leave, two boys are by the door and one flicks a lighter in her face and<br>says I\u2019ll give you a buck for a fuck. She looks straight ahead and keeps us walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>POLYESTER: A LEGACY<\/p>\n<p>Many years later you are working at the Lower Income Housing Tax Credit office<br \/>when a coworker asks why you always wear those clothes in that weird fabric<br \/>and you know he means all those slacks and acrylic blouses you bought at The<br \/>Limited. You never buy anything there again. Each day after work you unclasp<br \/>the pants, still loving how they slide down your nyloned legs, how the fabric<br \/>pools around your feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>POLYESTER: A LEGACY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are in eighth grade when Bonnie down the street invites you to a Mary Kay party.<br>She wears a blouse that drifts over her breasts, and when she leans across the table<br>you notice they are loose and slung low. You wonder why they are not formed into<br>two stationary ice cream scoops. She says this is the best thing to use to accentuate<br>the eyes and opens a large tablet filled with pressed velvet squares in every shade of taupe and beige and gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Michelle Lewis<\/strong> is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, and she has written reviews and essays for <em>The Gettysburg Review<\/em> and <em>Poet Lore<\/em>. Her poetry has appeared in several journals, most recently, <em>Jet Fuel Review<\/em> and <em>Spoon River Poetry Review<\/em> (forthcoming, Winter 2016). She is the author of two chapbooks, The Desire Line (Moon Pie Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Who Will Be Frenchy? (dancing girl press, Fall 2016). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLYESTER: A LEGACY You are with your mother in a dressing room in Sears. It is dark out and the storeis emptying. You are on the floor, fingering the carpet fibers while she is tryingand failing to find something that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"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=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}