{"id":277,"date":"2025-04-23T23:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T00:20:09","slug":"lornas-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/poetry\/lornas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"LORNA\u2019S STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Grey<\/span><\/p>\n

Her computer is a kind of lifeline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No living being has ever made that claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The definition of loneliness\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

is to lose out in all directions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Or to do something right\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and be punished for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She has money issues\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and only spam promises her\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the riches she needs to get by.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her Facebook friends\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

post pictures of themselves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

doing better than the pictures she posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always her family\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but they\u2019re like the food\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

her stomach can\u2019t abide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s food stamps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At least, her neighbor says\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

she qualifies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But she just can\u2019t bend her head\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

low enough to apply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She survives by working\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

a lousy job\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and by keeping her tiny apartment clean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If only her paycheck\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

gleamed like the floors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

God help me, she often says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But never to God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By John Grey Her computer is a kind of lifeline.\u00a0 No living being has ever made that claim.\u00a0 \u00a0 The definition of loneliness\u00a0 is to lose out in all directions.\u00a0 Or to do something right\u00a0 and be punished for it.\u00a0 \u00a0 She has money issues\u00a0 and only spam promises her\u00a0\u00a0 the riches she needs to… Continue Reading LORNA\u2019S STORY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/337"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}