{"id":956,"date":"2012-02-06T04:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T04:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/?page_id=956"},"modified":"2012-03-10T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T20:11:42","slug":"ben-hackman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/ben-hackman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hackman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>The Big Steal <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Jonny hasn\u2019t got much where the banks are concerned:<br \/>\nhas no time, no estate; he only paints<br \/>\nand papas, and does what he knows<br \/>\ndoes good, when a giving can\u2019t help<br \/>\nor change the world.<br \/>\nAnd some fuckhead, from Jon\u2019s lawn, stole<br \/>\na dining room table! A goddamn donation!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014To be picked up &amp; hauled off by the Diabetics Foundation,<br \/>\nand not a soul even saw or knew.<br \/>\nJonny hasn\u2019t got time to get angry (I\u2019m ashamed to say I do); he only<br \/>\npaints, and papas, and does what he knows does good:<br \/>\ndescribes to me how fuckheads look:<br \/>\nblue, translucent, fish tank eyes\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Enough art, dear Jon.<br \/>\nJust describe to me how fuckheads rise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1><strong>A Jew <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Was that pink-toothed boy who<br \/>\nstuck his foot in my face<br \/>\na Jew?<\/p>\n<p>I thought a Heeb as holy as him could understand<br \/>\nthat a kid doesn\u2019t need a black skullcap to know<br \/>\nthat You\u2019re up there, and I\u2019m down here.<\/p>\n<p>He lifted his brown shoe<br \/>\nright over the bus seat and kicked me<br \/>\nin my mouth and made my lip bleed.<\/p>\n<p>Who was right? A Jew against a Jew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1><strong>We whether Writing\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We, whether writing in the streets or in our sleep,<br \/>\nadhere<br \/>\nto whichever pious builder<br \/>\nwe do learn to love &amp; fear.<\/p>\n<p>We<br \/>\nWho lie buried in the streets or in our sleep<br \/>\ndid just what they told us<br \/>\nto do.<\/p>\n<p>I am Jacob, son of Isaac.<br \/>\nI have slept the night through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1>\u00a0<strong>Lament for a Sweater\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A pocket knife, a set of keys\u2026<br \/>\nthese are things I could believe<br \/>\nI could misplace\u2014I would not grieve<br \/>\na set of keys; I would replace them.<br \/>\nBut a sweater, shrunken at the sleeves, and bleached<br \/>\nat the collar, with a zipper so precocious<br \/>\nI could not coax the thing to feed\u2014and I tried!\u2014<br \/>\nshould not have gone the way it did; it should have died<br \/>\nin the great life cycle in which every sweater dies,<br \/>\ntorn and sewn a thousand times.<br \/>\nMy once black sweater, patched and gray\u2026<br \/>\nI left it on the trunk of the car that drove away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h1><strong>The Wisdom of the Chef\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h6>(For Sarit)<\/h6>\n<p>She says, \u201cEverything you cook should<br \/>\ninclude something from the sea.\u201d<br \/>\nI have no idea what she means by that,<br \/>\nbut I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Steal Jonny hasn\u2019t got much where the banks are concerned: has no time, no estate; he only paints and papas, and does what he knows does good, when a giving can\u2019t help or change the world. And some fuckhead, from Jon\u2019s lawn, stole a dining room table! A goddamn donation! \u2014To be picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-956","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/956\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}