{"id":321,"date":"2009-06-02T23:56:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T23:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/requitedarchive.wordpress.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:21:46","slug":"she-fires-blanks-and-swallows-sugar-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2009\/06\/02\/she-fires-blanks-and-swallows-sugar-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"She Fires Blanks and Swallows Sugar Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are but the proto-villainess,<br \/>\nnothing is at stake.<br \/>\nYou file yourself away,<br \/>\nacquire the character<br \/>\nof a red herring.<br \/>\nYou are too tweedy,<br \/>\ntoo intellectual, too many words to be<br \/>\na danger to our heroine.<br \/>\nYou putz around in the threshold,<br \/>\nwaiting for some fool to finally get it<br \/>\nand ravish you already.  This distracts<br \/>\nfrom your plan, from joining together<br \/>\nthe edges of your dissent,<br \/>\nthough it keeps you edgy.<\/p>\n<p>When you are riveted by light splotches,<br \/>\nhaloes of whitewash buboes<br \/>\non a Polaroid from 1987,<br \/>\nthere is no reason to be filed.<br \/>\nSomething in the shake<br \/>\nlet the color slake away &#8211;<br \/>\nperhaps it was entirely unshaken.<br \/>\nNo negative exists, it was its own<br \/>\nobscure moment in a frilly<br \/>\ngreen-checked two piece,<br \/>\nbefore your moment.<br \/>\nYou still wonder<br \/>\nhow the evidence would be used<br \/>\nso let it accompany you,<br \/>\nthough it warrants precious little use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lindsay Bell<\/strong> received her MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago. Her thesis is about musicality, not masculinity. She is delighted to have her work included in the inaugural issue of <em>Requited.<\/em> Her poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Barrelhouse, Diagram, Black Clock, Crawdad, Buffalo Carp, Columbia Poetry Review<\/em>, and elsewhere. In her spare time, she plays guitar, sings, and tries to get people to read her blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are but the proto-villainess, nothing is at stake. You file yourself away, acquire the character of a red herring. You are too tweedy, too intellectual, too many words to be a danger to our heroine. You putz around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}