{"id":1039,"date":"2007-08-07T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2007-08-07T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T18:28:33","slug":"letting-go-by-a-d-winans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/letting-go-by-a-d-winans\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting go by A.D. Winans"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of those poems that makes me go “Damn, I wish I could write like that” by our favourite Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans…<\/span>


LETTING GO<\/span>

You were Harpo Marx without a harp<\/span>
You were Sally Rand without your burlesque fan<\/span>
You were a slow funeral train<\/span>
Making its way down the track<\/span>
Looking for the last hunchback<\/span>

You were Clint Eastwood out to make your day<\/span>
With a loaded gun aimed at my groin<\/span>
But baby I no longer can do the dance<\/span>
Not even to get into your pants<\/span>
I don't want a ride on your rowboat<\/span>
To the Bermuda triangle<\/span>
Or to sit in the back set of your leaky canoe<\/span>
Listening to you play love songs on your kazoo<\/span>
And why do you insist on checking out of the motel<\/span>
When we haven't yet checked in<\/span>
You have the desk clerk confused<\/span>
And I'm beginning to lose interest in the muse<\/span>

Not since I ran the 440 in high school<\/span>
Have I been this out of breath<\/span>
The range master has issued me a summons<\/span>
To report to the firing range<\/span>
He wants to remove the bulls-eye from my heart<\/span>
You'll have to find someone else for target practice<\/span>

\u2022 A.D. Winans<\/span>
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This is one of those poems that makes me go “Damn, I wish I could write like that” by our favourite Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans…LETTING GOYou were Harpo Marx without a harpYou were Sally Rand without your burlesque fanYou were a slow funeral trainMaking its way down the trackLooking for the last hunchbackYou were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}