{"id":1096,"date":"2016-04-03T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:27:42","slug":"the-parking-lot-of-reading-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2016\/04\/03\/the-parking-lot-of-reading-old-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parking Lot of Reading Old Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember : seeing them on the sides of roads : parked in shade : turning the pages : paperbacks : news : head tilted to the window : driver\u2019s light : each in a quiet peace : I\u2019d think of their lists of chores : yellowing at home : under the ire of a wife : old men : who would never give up : their car keys : would never turn : that last page : of privileges : now with so many : businesses dead : I see : the parking lots : filling : not with the ghosts : of patrons : but these ancient desperations : these needs : for one more story : one more yarn : about a man : pitted against the environs : battling to make it : back home to a love : who waits : patiently : denies : all comers : faithful to his memory : in love : virtuously alone<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J. P. Dancing Bear<\/strong> is editor for the <em>American Poetry Journal<\/em> and Dream Horse Press. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, <em>Cephalopodic <\/em>(Glass Lyre Press, 2015), and <em>Love is a Burning Building<\/em> (FutureCycle Press, 2014). His work has appeared or will shortly in <em>American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, DIAGRAM<\/em> and elsewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember : seeing them on the sides of roads : parked in shade : turning the pages : paperbacks : news : head tilted to the window : driver\u2019s light : each in a quiet peace : I\u2019d think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"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=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}