{"id":2980,"date":"2016-04-18T00:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:50:19","slug":"a-note-about-chi-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-note-about-chi-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note About Chi Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1959 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/flower.jpg\" alt=\"flower\" width=\"748\" height=\"418\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/flower.jpg 1297w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/flower-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/flower-1024x572.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 748px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 748\/418;\" \/><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Dustin Lowman<\/p>\n<p>I remember seeing Chi Chi on the couch<br \/>\ncurled up into a diagonal oval<br \/>\ncurled up there all neat and simple<br \/>\nand I remember thinking: \u2018well you know<br \/>\nit\u2019s the simple human goal<br \/>\njust to find a space to carve out for yourself<br \/>\nin this world, have the ability to curl up on the sofa<br \/>\nand feel alright about yourself.\u2019<br \/>\nSo in one way I\u2019m a great reductionist,<br \/>\nand in another way I\u2019m a great egotist.<br \/>\nI want to conquer the world.<br \/>\nBut I have to have Chi Chi by my side.<br \/>\nIf I don\u2019t have her there, my elliptical friend,<br \/>\nthen I may as well be some campy dictator<br \/>\nfiring a thousand dead weapons<br \/>\npolishing a thousand blind windows.<br \/>\nNothing has inherent structure, and only<br \/>\nthe still point extends. But I swear that Chi Chi<br \/>\ncould make my heart a golden blossom<br \/>\nby the way she makes it mean something<br \/>\nto lay down sideways.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>I am Dustin Lowman. I live in Nashville, TN, and I write poems and songs. Most of my conception of myself is tied up in what I write in my poems and songs, and I have a lot of fun doing it. I\u2019ve never been published before, but my only real dream beyond having a sustainably happy existence is to make my own language-beauty, which I suppose is intertwined thickly with a sustainably happy existence. I hope you\u2019re treating everyone well, and I hope everything\u2019s good on your end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Dustin Lowman. I live in Nashville, TN, and I write poems and songs. Most of my conception of myself is tied up in what I write in my poems and songs, and I have a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}