{"id":2949,"date":"2016-02-25T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:30:43","slug":"peter-has-gotten-a-new-job-by-robert-ronnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/peter-has-gotten-a-new-job-by-robert-ronnow\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter has gotten a new job by Robert Ronnow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1158 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sad-Man-on-a-Walk.jpg\" alt=\"Sad Man on a Walk\" width=\"271\" height=\"456\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sad-Man-on-a-Walk.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sad-Man-on-a-Walk-178x300.jpg 178w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 271px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 271\/456;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter has gotten a new job<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Robert Ronnow<\/p>\n<p>Peter has gotten a new job<br \/>\nas a bookstore clerk from one to ten<br \/>\ndown by the river<br \/>\nin a sunny little house.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come to visit and I&#8217;m thumbing through<br \/>\na book of poems<br \/>\nby Robinson Jeffers&#8217; brother.<br \/>\nIncoherent but<br \/>\nmore interesting than this.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the river rises a bum of a blob<br \/>\ndripping with water and begging a yen.<br \/>\nWhile he shivers<br \/>\nI call him a louse<br \/>\nand say This isn&#8217;t Nippon, you!<br \/>\nSo off he roams<br \/>\nprobably back to his mother.<br \/>\nHe was a nut<br \/>\nbecause he wasn&#8217;t a fish.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Robert Ronnow&#8217;s most recent poetry collections are <em>New &amp; Selected Poems: 1975-2005<\/em> (Barnwood Press, 2007) and <em>Communicating the Bird<\/em> (Broken Publications, 2012). Visit his web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronnowpoetry.com\">www.ronnowpoetry.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Ronnow&#8217;s most recent poetry collections are New &#038; Selected Poems: 1975-2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}