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international man of mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n i always want to be the better me but here i am in a hotel room in salzburg it was a minor glitch happens all the time, he said with a smile<\/p>\n but there\u2019s my wife calling america because i\u2019m pacing and threatening to go back to america come hell or high water<\/p>\n and even though she\u2019s shown me the account on the ipad i never believe what i see<\/p>\n in my mind there\u2019s always some international plot to ruin our lives when we\u2019re weak and away<\/p>\n this can also happen when i\u2019m buying tickets when i\u2019m standing in line at the grocery when i travel to europe and my card won\u2019t swipe and have to lock and relock do you think you\u2019re some kind of but i don\u2019t say anything because some ticket machine in vienna the walls in this room in salzburg closing in<\/p>\n my stomach growling and while she continues to try and reach america by phone america\u2019s greatest spy<\/p>\n watching every shrouded face on richard mayr gasse anyone who walks a tad bit funny or lingers around the star hotel a little too long.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Grochalski<\/strong> is the author of The Noose Doesn\u2019t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out<\/em> (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City<\/em> (Low Ghost Press, 2010), and In The Year of Everything Dying<\/em> (Camel Saloon, 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" international man of mystery i always want to be the better me the guy who handles shit and get things done but here i am in a hotel room in salzburg flipping out because my bank card didn\u2019t work it was a minor glitch the ticket officer told us back in vienna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22139,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/22139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe guy who handles shit and get things done<\/p>\n
\nflipping out because my bank card didn\u2019t work<\/p>\n
\nthe ticket officer told us back in vienna<\/p>\n
\nto try and placate me<\/p>\n
\nto not leave the hotel room<\/p>\n
\nat least four times<\/p>\n
\nto corrupt the bank account<\/p>\n
\nor paying for a meal with a debit card<\/p>\n
\nor buying shit online<\/p>\n
\nor when i leave for work<\/p>\n
\nthe living room windows fifteen times<\/p>\n
\ninternational man of mystery or something? my wife asks<\/p>\n
\njust continue pacing and rubbing my face
\nas if our whole operation were crashing down<\/p>\n
\nwas on the fritz<\/p>\n
\nmy wife\u2019s stomach growling
\nbecause we haven\u2019t eaten in almost ten hours<\/p>\n
\ni check outside the hotel window<\/p>\n
\nevery car that idles<\/p>\n
\nlaughs the wrong way<\/p>\n