{"id":434,"date":"2018-10-08T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/?page_id=434"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T23:11:16","slug":"poetry-wheels","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/nonfiction\/nonfiction-poetry\/poetry-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry | Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowellsBooks.Blog 5 februari 2007 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/post\/guests\/the-first-entry-in-which-i-bust-out-the-big-poetry-stick-on-your-can\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><strong>Wheels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has a divorce,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a mustache,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a mullet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has a plow on the front of his truck<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a GMC, one in a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">series of pick-ups he\u2019s owned:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">trucks with rusted chains on the tires,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">trucks with dirt-caked shovels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">clanging thisaway and that in the bed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">trucks with deer rifles racked in the cab<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and deer heaped in the back,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a stink on them like wet coats piled at a party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When it snows he drives restlessly,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">thinking of friends, and old people<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he can plow out for their thanks later<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He drove his ex-wife to work, and that was<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">how she settled on her name for him,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">soon everyone\u2019s name for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has a new girlfriend now,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but what he really likes is to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">go to the high school without her<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and watch his son wrestle,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">or his daughter heave the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">basketball twenty feet down court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He likes to feel the bleachers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">recklessly shimmying under him,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and to stamp his feet with everyone else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He wrestled here,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">passed the ball upcourt here,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">feels the reverb of stamping feet in his blood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has scratch lottery tickets,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">none of them winners,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in his glove compartment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He has stiff canvas work gloves<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the glove compartment with them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The tickets fall out whenever<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">he reaches for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He always puts the tickets back,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">can\u2019t make himself throw them away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">because you can do something with them,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">mail them somewhere,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and you get a second chance to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowellsBooks.Blog 5 februari 2007 (link): &nbsp; Wheels He has a divorce, a mustache, a mullet. 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