{"id":250,"date":"2009-10-22T01:14:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T09:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-10-22T01:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T09:14:19","slug":"the-proper-tool-from-three-blocks-west-of-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The Proper Tool from “Three Blocks West of Wonderland”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heading to the printers soon. Woo hoo!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Proper Tool<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m raring. I\u2019m keen. Keen on the job, keen on green<\/span><\/p>\n

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suede, pea soup green suede. Round mountains<\/span><\/p>\n

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of breast meat. The taste of breadfruit. I\u2019m fond<\/span><\/p>\n

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of blue fin, the Nepali coast. On off days I mourn<\/span><\/p>\n

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road kill, vanishing tooth fairies, yell above the wind<\/span><\/p>\n

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in ironwood trees or run over wild boars. I try to decipher<\/span><\/p>\n

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your posture, sagging down pipe. Was it something I said?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Did I wing a wrench into the works of your Stoly-propelled,<\/span><\/p>\n

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part-time life of letters? Did my leaky duck plump<\/span><\/p>\n

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body mangle your shift,<\/span><\/p>\n

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the entire working class hero period?<\/span><\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t know your Gatsbys<\/span><\/p>\n

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from your Kowalskis, pub-crawling from slumming.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I buy jade, Siberian tiger\u2019s eye. Thyme<\/span><\/p>\n

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infused bath bombs. Glass beads. Silk and suede,<\/span><\/p>\n

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green suede, so much easier to stroke than you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Go saw yourself in half. Go nail<\/span><\/p>\n

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it in, back against the wall. Paint yourself, or it,<\/span><\/p>\n

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black. Into a corner. Weld your metal. Meld<\/span><\/p>\n

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the two halves of your dark side. Screw yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gather the loose ones. Punch yourself out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heading to the printers soon. Woo hoo! The Proper Tool I\u2019m raring. I\u2019m keen. Keen on the job, keen on green suede, pea soup green suede. Round mountains of breast meat. The taste of breadfruit. I\u2019m fond of blue fin, the Nepali coast. On off days I mourn road kill, vanishing tooth fairies, yell above […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[149,152,236,299],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}