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Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018John D <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John D Robinson<\/strong> was born in 63 in the UK; his work has appeared widely in the small press, most recently in Bareback Lit, Red Fez, Dead Snakes, Pulsar, Poet&Geek, The Commonline Journal, The Kitchen Poet, The Chicago Record, Mad Swirl.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robinson \u2018John D must try harder in every subject; he appears to spend a great deal of time day-dreaming and preferring his own company, he may struggle to establish a career for himself\u00a0 in the future if he continues with his present attitude\u2019 scrawled school reports year after year – \u201cRobinson Mr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmust try harder
\nin every subject;
\nhe appears to
\nspend a great
\ndeal of time
\nday-dreaming and
\npreferring his own
\ncompany, he
\nmay struggle to
\nestablish a career
\nfor himself\u00a0 in
\nthe future if he
\ncontinues with his
\npresent attitude\u2019
\nscrawled school
\nreports year
\nafter year –
\n\u201cRobinson
\nMr Mathews wants
\nto see you right
\naway, you\u2019re
\nno longer wanted
\nhere\u201d said the
\ngrinning floor
\nmanager of the
\nwarehouse –
\n\u201cRobinson
\nyou think you\u2019re
\nsomething special
\ndon\u2019t you?\u201d snarled
\nthe angry Corporal
\n\u201cYes Corporal\u201d
\nI replied,
\nthis was the wrong
\nanswer and he threw
\nthe contents
\nof my locker across
\nthe floor –
\n\u201cRobinson
\nyou\u2019re one hell
\nof a lazy bastard!\u201d
\nnumerous factory
\nsupervisors have
\nobserved –
\n\u201cRobinson
\nhow the fuck
\nyou\u2019ve made it
\nthis far in life is
\nbeyond my
\nimagination\u201d
\nis a frequently made
\nstatement by friends
\nand enemies –
\n\u201cRobinson
\nJohn D; you are
\nguilty as charged\u201d
\nsaid the bloated
\nred nosed magistrate
\nsending me into
\nthe arms of probation –
\nBut for many
\nyears, by far the
\nmost frequent
\necho is
\n\u2018Dear Mr Robinson
\nthank you for
\nsending us your
\nwork to our
\npublication,
\nunfortunately
\nit is not what we\u2019re
\nlooking for at the
\nmoment, but we wish
\nyou luck in placing
\nit else where\u2019<\/p>\n