{"id":1979,"date":"2009-09-14T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2009-09-14T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:31:18","slug":"jim-carroll-gone-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/jim-carroll-gone-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Carroll (gone @ 60)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1980\" href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1980\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1980 lazyload\" title=\"Jim carroll\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jim-carroll.jpg\" alt=\"Jim carroll\" width=\"181\" height=\"136\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 181px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 181\/136;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poet &amp; diarist Jim Carroll died past Friday of a heart attack. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/14\/books\/14carroll.html\">obit<\/a> in the New York Times gives the details of the life, &amp; a lovely piece by Tom Clark on his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/tomclarkblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/jim-carroll.html\">here<\/a>, cites Carroll on writing. Though I enjoyed the two volumes of &#8220;diaries,&#8221; I prefer the poems in <em>Living at the Movies<\/em>, &amp; here&#8217;s one of them to counteract the sadness of one more calling it splitsville:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JET FIZZLE<\/p>\n<p>It was summer then<\/p>\n<p>and the forests were legal<\/p>\n<p>the farmers there<\/p>\n<p>use marble eggs as decoys<\/p>\n<p>when those Hawks dive<\/p>\n<p>they reach speeds of up to 200 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<p>disappointed<\/p>\n<p>at egg<\/p>\n<p>a switchman<\/p>\n<p>a red lantern<\/p>\n<p>in Grand central Station<\/p>\n<p>a jar of honey<\/p>\n<p>in a plain brown bag<\/p>\n<p>I thought<\/p>\n<p>that it was pretty<\/p>\n<p>Weird<\/p>\n<p>when he poured it in<\/p>\n<p>God the fathers beard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet &amp; diarist Jim Carroll died past Friday of a heart attack. An obit in the New York Times gives the details of the life, &amp; a lovely piece by Tom Clark on his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-poets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}