{"id":837,"date":"2021-07-04T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2021-12-18T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:23:27","slug":"ode-to-r-guh-im-always-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/ode-to-r-guh-im-always-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to R-Guh: I\u2019m Always There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Ode to R-Guh: I\u2019m Always There\nConnie Zhang, '23\n\nYou know who am I?\nSomeone who is always there.\nBut not with any random guy,\nJust my brother I have to share.\n\nI was there when you got an award\nTo be honest I was always pretty bored,\nIt was tall, black, pointy, and had stars\nBut it showed that you had really gone far.\nI was there all the time when you watched anime,\nHalf the time I really didn\u2019t want to stay,\n\u201cIs there anymore popcorn?\u201d\n\u201cI kinda ate it all\u2026\u201d too bad I was too shy to say\n\nI was there when you graduated college,\nI fell asleep, but I was still there!\nI was there when you dragged the chair,\nAnd when Mom gave you her signature glare.\nI was there when you had been switching the light,\nStanding on the bed was a funny sight.\nI was there when you poured the welcome smoothie,\nToo bad it lumped out like slime, so gooey.\n\nI was there when you argued,\nI was there when you laughed,\nI was there when you sighed,\nI was there when you talked- STOP!\nI was always there,\nI was always here,\nI tried my best to be always everywhere.\nAll good things, come to an end,\nDoes that mean this was good?\nSince it eventually did descend?\n\nHere\u2019s the fact, the fast forceful fact,\nI am not there as much anymore.\nI\u2019m not there when you work\nI\u2019m not there when you eat\nI\u2019m not there when you laugh, nor sleep, so bitter\u2014but sweet.\n\nYet at least I\u2019ll always be somewhere,\nYou\u2019ll know I\u2019ll always be out there,\nThat\u2019s better than nowhere,\nEven if I\u2019m elsewhere,\nSo please brother, take care.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Zhang, &#8217;23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}