{"id":1007,"date":"2007-06-11T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:17:00","slug":"waiting-by-phuoc-tan-diep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/waiting-by-phuoc-tan-diep\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting by Phuoc-Tan Diep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waiting<\/span>

12pm<\/span>
I hate waiting – always have. <\/span>

1pm<\/span>
Memories are littered with queues springing up ambushing me whilst I rushed for trains and zoo visits in torrential rain marred by people with umbrellas leaping out from under trees.  <\/span>

2pm<\/span>
I wished, back in the twenty first century, that I had time to watch the tigers. <\/span>

3pm<\/span>
I waited in lines with other passive aggressives whilst many tigers died. <\/span>

4pm<\/span>
I wasted so much time that tigers became extinct. <\/span>

5pm<\/span>
Luckily I found the secret of eternal life by accident, whilst waiting in the Post Office. <\/span>

6pm<\/span>
The secret is to hold onto life so tightly that none of it can slip through your hands. <\/span>

7pm<\/span>
In time it became effortless. <\/span>

8pm<\/span>
The problem, as I found out, is letting go. <\/span>

9pm<\/span>
I searched for the wisest minds in all the earth and beyond. <\/span>

10pm<\/span>
I waited in long queues to see them. <\/span>

11pm<\/span>
They did not know – how I could let go. Wisdom, they said, is not holding on so tightly in the first place.<\/span>

12am<\/span>
I still hate waiting, even with all the time in the world.<\/span><\/font>
<\/p>\n

\u2022 P-T D is a regulat contributor to IS&T \u2013 and says this latest piece was inspired by work he did on an online creative writing course at UEA.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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