I can not tolerate her huckleberry warmth, and that
\nshe piles on the mascara to draw attention to her eyes.<\/p>\n
I am troubled she flosses in the living room, and spend hours
\nenvisioning where the particles of rank debris, once expelled,
\nhave landed and lie buttressing into the folds of the throw<\/p>\n
pillows where I rest my head, the pads of the keyboard,
\nthe television remote; the pages of my favorite books. I am<\/p>\n
concerned by her off\u2013the-record veneration of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen; Leonard Cohen\u2014the rubbish flowers, tea and oranges; that infernal blue raincoat\u2026<\/p>\n
I am gravely annoyed by the glacial speed with which she drives, her potlucks, boggle parties, crystal loving anointments and truth questing via Getting into the Whirlpool!<\/em><\/p>\n I must thank her for lending me all that money. I will be paying her back forever and ever in stressed syllables\u2014sudden guilt, flowerets, songs to slit your wrists to\u2026<\/p>\n Writer\u2019s note: this is a piece of fiction and not about my sister\u2019s mascara habits or her adoration of Leonard Cohen.<\/p>\n Olivia Grayson<\/strong> creates prose and poetry that combine pop culture with autobiography, and recently learned she was not hallucinating, but suffering from a condition known as Alice in Wonderland Syndrome\u2014a neurological disorder which presents as persistent optical distortions.<\/p>\n Her work has been published in such journals as Birds We Piled Loosely, BlazeVox, Bombay Gin, 4th and Sycamore, Talking Book, <\/em>and others.<\/p>\n She teaches and writes in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can not tolerate her huckleberry warmth, and that she piles on the mascara to draw attention to her eyes. I am troubled she flosses in the living room, and spend hours envisioning where the particles of rank debris, once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"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=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}