{"id":543,"date":"2013-01-27T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/?page_id=543"},"modified":"2015-12-31T06:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T13:59:43","slug":"the-cheapjack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacobpolley.com\/news\/the-cheapjack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cheapjack"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do I have for as near as damn it?<\/span>
\n What do I sell but I’m giving away?<\/span>
\n Might I pick my own pockets<\/span>
\n and slit my own throat<\/span>
\n and dump myself dead in a shop doorway?<\/span><\/p>\n

Daffodils, bird whistles, bobble hats,<\/span>
\n fickle fish, slinkies, your name spelled in wire;<\/span>
\n caterpillars, mouse mats,<\/span>
\n trick plastic dog-shit,<\/span>
\n conniptions, predictions and God’s own fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve bargained myself to Bedlam and back,<\/span>
\n and I wonder it is that I’m not less flesh,<\/span>
\n for I’d sell you the scraps,<\/span>
\n the loose skin, the slack,<\/span>
\n the tips of my toes and the last of my breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

and might as well for the good my breath’s done;<\/span>
\n I’ve blown suits, jobs, marriages, houses and lands:<\/span>
\n I’m a man overcome<\/span>
\n by his profligate tongue,<\/span>
\n and if you get close, you can stand where I stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

What’ll it cost? Not as much as you think.<\/span>
\n What have you got? That’ll do. Here’s my nod,<\/span>
\n here’s my wink,<\/span>
\n here’s my blood for the ink.<\/span>
\n I’m begging you now: my life for the lot.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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