{"id":480,"date":"2023-04-25T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/18-2\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2023-05-01T02:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:48:25","slug":"we-complained-while-the-sun-was-shining","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/poetry\/we-complained-while-the-sun-was-shining\/","title":{"rendered":"We Complained While the Sun Was Shining"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kitty Josp\u00e9<\/span><\/h5>\n

And when they did something to someone else’s life, we<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

perhaps carried on,\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>failed to pay<\/span>
\n<\/span>attention.\u00a0 I was<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>feeling in a hurry, one said, I<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was overwhelmed by\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>all<\/span>
\n<\/span>I\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>had<\/span>
\n<\/span>to do, another said and I was so<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

busy and<\/span>
\n<\/span>on<\/span>
\n<\/span>and on<\/span>
\n<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>excuses<\/span>
\n<\/span>piled<\/span>
\nup.<\/span><\/p>\n

But did you take a chair outside and watch the sun?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not sure who is involved with the “we”<\/span>
\n<\/span>if you were not complaining<\/span>
\n<\/span>but the fact is,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

whoever “we” is, has an impact on all those<\/span>
\n<\/span>involved and surrounded by that “us”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and curious, the sun, so long the object<\/span>
\n<\/span>of worship, veneration and thanks<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

was shining.\u00a0 And we (forgive us)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

were complaining while it was shining.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

About this poem:<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>I was inspired by Ilya Kaminsky’s prologue poem to his book,<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Deaf Republic<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 “<\/span>We lived Happily during the War”.<\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/91413\/we-lived-happily-during-the-war<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kitty Josp\u00e9 And when they did something to someone else’s life, we\u00a0 perhaps carried on,\u00a0 failed to pay attention.\u00a0 I was\u00a0 \u00a0feeling in a hurry, one said, I\u00a0 was overwhelmed by\u00a0 all I\u00a0 had to do, another said and I was so\u00a0 busy and on and on the\u00a0 excuses piled up. But did you take Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480\/revisions\/699"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}