Postcard from the Party<\/b><\/p>\n
You have to be invited, and there’s nothing
\nyou can do to be asked. Headlines and bloodlines
\ndon’t help. It’s a long way from home but I’m
\nhere, the view much better than I’m used to.
\nHow did this happen? Dumb but good luck,
\nright place and time, the planets aligned.
\nNo contract, no deadline, no risk. And what
\ndid I do to deserve this? Slept with all
\nthe wrong people, gambled too much on friends
\nof friends with light bulbs over their heads.
\nWrote every day no matter what.<\/p>\n
by Wyn Cooper
\nfrom Postcards from the Interior<\/i><\/p>\n
We mostly do not exist except in small windows. Welcome to my apt-for-any-century, turn-based text-based slow-budding relationship. It isn’t enough. It is just right. It’s perfect. It’s frustrating. I worry. I care too much. I don’t care enough. I am honored. I am afraid. Sometimes I fade into sleep with my phone on my pillow and wake with it sweetly cradled to my chest, a voice on the wire device warmed by my skin. <\/p>\n
Approximately fourty-eight hours from now, give or take a handful, a radiant man (not a boy, though I often call him a boy with the same precision used when I often call myself a girl) will begin to travel North. He will drive a large metal beast across his country’s border to find me, following a road that I have traveled a thousand times, and he will succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Postcard from the Party You have to be invited, and there’s nothing you can do to be asked. Headlines and bloodlines don’t help. It’s a long way from home but I’m here, the view much better than I’m used to. How did this happen? Dumb but good luck, right place and time, the planets aligned. … Continue reading “Life is short. Do stuff that matters. – Siqi Chen”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,247],"class_list":["post-4184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-relationships","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}