{"id":2983,"date":"2012-08-12T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2012-08-11T09:54:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:54:38","slug":"john-grochalski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-grochalski\/","title":{"rendered":"John Grochalski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>talking like rimbaud<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>i don\u2019t talk enough<br \/>\nfor them<\/p>\n<p>they tell me that i don\u2019t talk<\/p>\n<p>we talk all day here<br \/>\nthey say to me<\/p>\n<p>but you just sit<br \/>\nand say nothing<\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t know what happened to me<\/p>\n<p>maybe i lost the passion for conversation<\/p>\n<p>maybe i just got dull<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019d like to think<br \/>\ni was like rimbaud<\/p>\n<p>that i did all of my talking at a young age<br \/>\nlike he did his poetry<\/p>\n<p>and that there was no need<br \/>\nfor me to talk now<\/p>\n<p>i\u2019d tell them this<br \/>\nbut then i\u2019d have to explain rimbaud<\/p>\n<p>so i tell them that my wife<br \/>\nwould disagree with<br \/>\ntheir assessment of me<\/p>\n<p>i tell them that i talk to my wife<br \/>\nall the time<\/p>\n<p>talk and complain<br \/>\nis all i do at home<\/p>\n<p>talk and threaten neighbors<\/p>\n<p>and for some reason<br \/>\nthey are offended by this<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Grochalski<\/strong> is the author of <em>The Noose Doesn\u2019t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out<\/em> (Six Gallery Press 2008), <a href=\"http:\/\/burningriver.info\/?p=1128\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Glass City<\/em><\/a> (Low Ghost Press, 2010). Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; talking like rimbaud i don\u2019t talk enough for them they tell me that i don\u2019t talk we talk all day here they say to me but you just sit and say nothing i don\u2019t know what happened to me maybe i lost the passion for conversation maybe i just got dull i\u2019d like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}