{"id":1784,"date":"2012-04-16T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:39:23","slug":"rough-cut-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"ROUGH CUT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/film_board1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/film_board1-150x146.png?resize=150%2C146\" alt=\"\" title=\"film_board\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1787\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately my current videopoem project is going much more smoothly than the one depicted in this poem. Don&#8217;t hire crazy people, the moral of the story I guess. It can be hard to tell though; sociopaths are often charming and erudite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROUGH CUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After enduring a gestation period<br \/>\nof eighteen months<br \/>\nand several bouts of incommunicado-ness<br \/>\nshe dutifully reports to the clay eater\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>rat\u2019s nest to defend her lump of art<br \/>\nbefore he nibbled away all the footage.<br \/>\nShe sings his praises, pretending<br \/>\nthe indiscriminate cravings<\/p>\n<p>and grinding teeth do not exist,<br \/>\ndo not wear her down.<br \/>\nMeth-heads don\u2019t generate, they spin<br \/>\nscratched vinyl, shoot blankly,<\/p>\n<p>regurgitate turbulence, gnaw and brew<br \/>\ndandelion wine because it\u2019s free,<br \/>\nfree as roadside blackberries<br \/>\nand meadows of psilocybin.<\/p>\n<p>Pirate of his own ship-<br \/>\nbachelor pad bouncy house-<br \/>\nsleeping in a pocket on the floor,<br \/>\nclose to the cache<\/p>\n<p>when he isn\u2019t busy<br \/>\nsnipping, sniping.<br \/>\nUnder the red toque<br \/>\na mind\u2019s eye so muddied<\/p>\n<p>it can see nothing<br \/>\nmove.<br \/>\nBloodied images, frames, shots<br \/>\nblur unremittingly.<\/p>\n<p>Recreate. Rework. Repeat.<br \/>\nRepeat. Repeat. Repeat.<br \/>\nWith no redress, no kind release,<br \/>\nshe seriously considers murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately my current videopoem project is going much more smoothly than the one depicted in this poem. Don&#8217;t hire crazy people, the moral of the story I guess. It can be hard to tell though; sociopaths are often charming and erudite. ROUGH CUT After enduring a gestation period of eighteen months and several bouts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[149,236,347,352,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}