{"id":1044,"date":"2014-06-11T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2014-06-13T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:52:57","slug":"theodore-roethke-i-have-known-the-inexorable-sadness-of-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1044\/poems\/theodore-roethke-i-have-known-the-inexorable-sadness-of-pencils\/","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Roethke: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dolor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,<br \/>\nNeat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,<br \/>\nAll the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,<br \/>\nDesolation in immaculate public places,<br \/>\nLonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,<br \/>\nThe unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,<br \/>\nRitual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,<br \/>\nEndless duplicaton of lives and objects.<br \/>\nAnd I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,<br \/>\nFiner than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,<br \/>\nSift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,<br \/>\nDropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,<br \/>\nGlazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolor I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight, All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage, Desolation in immaculate public places, Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard, The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher, Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma, Endless duplicaton of lives and objects. <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1044\/poems\/theodore-roethke-i-have-known-the-inexorable-sadness-of-pencils\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[256,255],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-cubicle-life","tag-the-inexorable-sadness-of-the-organization-man","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}