Lee Van Cleef<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when you refused to \u201cfix\u201d your nose | they cast you as a villain | I respect that | you looked like my father | who was not a villain | more Mortimer, less Angel Eyes | wore about as much denim as you wore black | two fashion faux pas forgiven because you both cultivated mustaches worthy of spots in the Louvre | my father, too | refused to fix his arm | tried at acting | I\u2019ve seen him lauded in yellow newspapers | played Curly in Of Mice and Men | a villain | just like you | so, was it torture torturing Eli Wallach? | even now | I have to look away when your thumbs press hard | on his black bug eyes | I guess I\u2019m not much of a cowboy | I guess maybe it skips a generation sometimes | well, if I had a son | I\u2019d ask him not to fix his nose | his arm | to wear as much black | or denim | as he wants | as long as he has a fine mustache | and if he turned out to be a villain | one I could not save | I hope he\u2019d also end up | six feet under a stone that reads | \u201cthe best of the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Left Lane is a writer and broadcaster from Nashville, Tennessee. She comes from a long line of cowboys and has a collection of hunting knives. She is sad she’ll never grow a mustache as glorious as her father’s, or her grandfather’s, but at least their Stetsons fit her fine. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/vidar-nordli-mathisen-546060-unsplash.jpg?fit=2880%2C1879&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}