{"id":297,"date":"2010-03-12T01:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-03-12T01:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T09:19:49","slug":"the-proper-tool-from-three-blocks-west-of-wonderland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"THE PROPER TOOL from Three Blocks West of Wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_2461_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-298\" title=\"img_2461_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_2461_2-100x150.jpg?resize=100%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first poem in the collection; a bit of whimsy, hostility, envy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Proper Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m raring. I\u2019m keen. Keen on the job, keen on green<br \/>\nsuede, pea soup green suede. Round mountains<br \/>\nof breast meat. The taste of breadfruit. I\u2019m fond<br \/>\nof blue fin, the Nepali coast. On off days I mourn<\/p>\n<p>road kill, vanishing tooth fairies, yell above the wind<br \/>\nin ironwood trees or run over wild boars. I try to decipher<br \/>\nyour posture, sagging down pipe. Was it something I said?<br \/>\nDid I wing a wrench into the works of your Stoly-propelled,<\/p>\n<p>part-time life of letters? Did my leaky duck plump<br \/>\nbody mangle your shift,<br \/>\nthe entire working class hero period?<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t know your Gatsbys<br \/>\nfrom your Kowalskis, pub-crawling from slumming.<\/p>\n<p>I buy jade, Siberian tiger\u2019s eye. Thyme<br \/>\ninfused bath bombs. Glass beads. Silk and suede,<br \/>\ngreen suede, so much easier to stroke than you.<br \/>\nGo saw yourself in half. Go nail<\/p>\n<p>it in, back against the wall. Paint yourself, or it,<br \/>\nblack. Into a corner. Weld your metal. Meld<br \/>\nthe two halves of your dark side. Screw yourself.<br \/>\nGather the loose ones. Punch yourself out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first poem in the collection; a bit of whimsy, hostility, envy. 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 [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}