{"id":1712,"date":"2014-06-26T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2014-07-03T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T11:01:41","slug":"i-chased-the-fly-out-of-the-kitchen-a-poem-by-alireza-abiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"I chased the fly out of the kitchen <h6>by Alireza Abiz<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He will die tonight<\/p>\n<p>I opened the door onto the yard<\/p>\n<p>And many times I shooed him out with the yellow napkin<\/p>\n<p>And each time he came back in.<\/p>\n<p>In a small saucepan on the stove<\/p>\n<p>I was cooking black-eyed beans<\/p>\n<p>The fly flew toward the pan<\/p>\n<p>Drinking in the steam from the beans<\/p>\n<p>I swatted at him with the napkin<\/p>\n<p>Careful not to hit him-<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want his blood on my hands.<\/p>\n<p>He made a turn and hid under the table<\/p>\n<p>I could easily have grabbed him<\/p>\n<p>I was scared I would catch germs and kill the fly as well.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want his death to be at my hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I chased him out with the yellow napkin<\/p>\n<p>And quickly closed the door<\/p>\n<p>If I want to have a smoke in the yard<\/p>\n<p>I must remember to shut the door after me<\/p>\n<p>If the fly were smart<\/p>\n<p>He would go and sit on that vent &#8211; is it from the boiler?<\/p>\n<p>There is always warm steam there<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think he is that intelligent<\/p>\n<p>And I wouldn\u2019t know how to explain this to him<\/p>\n<p>And anyway, he is not going to last the winter is he?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alireza Abiz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He will die tonight I opened the door onto the yard And many times I shooed him out with the yellow napkin And each time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}