Drag Show at the Rendezvous <\/p>\n
I shock myself, retired teacher<\/p>\n
in this boisterous crowd,<\/p>\n
screaming like a crazed teenager<\/p>\n
at Gigi Monroe in clingy sequins<\/p>\n
and puffy tulle.<\/p>\n
The music fades<\/p>\n
as Gigi composes herself<\/p>\n
amid deafening applause.<\/p>\n
She gushes love, reminds us<\/p>\n
to care for each other.<\/p>\n
Gray heads mingle with purple spikes,<\/p>\n
Carhartts and spandex<\/p>\n
in the sweltering barroom.<\/p>\n
A woman covered in tattoos<\/p>\n
gives me a high five.<\/p>\n
It is past my bed time<\/p>\n
but here is Gigi coming my way.<\/p>\n
She fixes me with her dazzling face,<\/p>\n
puckers and blows a kiss.<\/p>\n
You are fabulous!<\/p>\n
— Diane DeSloover<\/em><\/p>\n The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Writers\u2019 Weir. To submit a piece for consideration, email us at editor@capweek.com.<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n A poem by Diane DeSloover. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":49916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74,73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49915"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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