{"id":336,"date":"2022-04-08T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2023-08-19T17:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:33:19","slug":"maybe-i-am-lovely","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/maybe-i-am-lovely\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I am Lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Sarah Edmonds<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I am lovely\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It bounces around my head<\/p>\n<p>For six days.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel lovely,<\/p>\n<p>When I look in a mirror<\/p>\n<p>Or stand all by myself<\/p>\n<p>Or in a crowd.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel lovely, I just feel tired.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the things I have to say are lovely<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps the words I write.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe these aching legs<\/p>\n<p>Were meant only to hold my mind<\/p>\n<p>Closer to the stars from which it was forged.<\/p>\n<p>My body, merely a vessel for big ideas,<\/p>\n<p>For soft spoken words on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>And a sharp tongue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my body is a husk, whose sole purpose<\/p>\n<p>Is to carry the musings of a girl<\/p>\n<p>Who has gone half-mad<\/p>\n<p>Into a world that is not yet ready<\/p>\n<p>For what she has to say:<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am lovely\u2014<\/p>\n<p>But maybe not today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Edmonds &nbsp; \u201cMaybe I am lovely\u201d It bounces around my head For six days. I don\u2019t feel lovely, When I look in a mirror Or stand all by myself Or in a crowd. I don\u2019t feel lovely, I just feel tired. Maybe the things I have to say are lovely Or perhaps the words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/847"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}