{"id":46665,"date":"2019-06-22T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46665"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:39:11","slug":"i-am-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-am-21\/","title":{"rendered":"I am\u2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI yam what I yam.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8211; Popeye the Sailor Man, 1929<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am I, Don Quixote!\u201d once<br \/>\nproclaimed the brave knight<br \/>\nto emulate him I have long strove<br \/>\nsans mule, though never lacking a<br \/>\nsuitable Sancho Ponza<br \/>\nI have discombobulated windmills<br \/>\nslain foes with honor, with words<\/p>\n<p>Handy with tongue lance, I am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am I, Don Quixote\u201d in dreams<br \/>\nI speak these words<br \/>\nto no one in particular<br \/>\nto everyone I am trying to prove<br \/>\nmyself that I am I, me<\/p>\n<p>It is not a boastful infringement<br \/>\non G-d\u2019s copyright<br \/>\nproclaiming &#8211; I am not &#8211; to being<br \/>\n\u2018a\u2019 or \u2018the\u2019 great anything<\/p>\n<p>I am I<\/p>\n<p>dreamer, poet, chaser of parable<br \/>\nwearing dented armor<br \/>\nweathered patina of a life<br \/>\nlived with purpose, I suppose as<br \/>\nresolve frequently gave way<br \/>\nto happenstance-cum-opportunity<\/p>\n<p>I am I, Don Quixote incarnate<br \/>\nin sprit, in thought<br \/>\nnot always, I know, in deed<\/p>\n<p>I am I, noble knight errant of now<br \/>\nI am I, who has hired, retired<br \/>\nmany a Sancho Panza<br \/>\nthose who always kept mules fed<br \/>\nlances sharp<br \/>\nmy ego in check<\/p>\n<p>I am I though not Don Quixote<\/p>\n<p>I am I<br \/>\nhusband, parent, grandparent<br \/>\nfriend, comrade, teacher<\/p>\n<p>Doer of deeds, liver of life<\/p>\n<p>I am I, not Don Quixote though maybe<br \/>\njust once, I would like to don<br \/>\nthe great one\u2019s helmet, make<br \/>\none final, heroic windmill charge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u00a9 2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI yam what I yam.\u201d &#8211; Popeye the Sailor Man, 1929 \u201cI am I, Don Quixote!\u201d once proclaimed the brave knight to emulate him I have long strove sans mule, though never lacking a suitable Sancho Ponza I have discombobulated windmills slain foes with honor,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46735,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46665\/revisions\/46735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}