{"id":1116,"date":"2007-12-03T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2007-12-03T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:04:00","slug":"jacket-potatoes-and-jesus-two-poems-by-colin-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jacket-potatoes-and-jesus-two-poems-by-colin-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacket potatoes and Jesus – two poems by Colin Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKET POTATOES<\/span>

when we were<\/span>
kicked out of the pub<\/span>
in the early hours<\/span>
of the morning<\/span>
we would sometimes<\/span>
go back to<\/span>
Big Jock Bob's house<\/span>
and he would shout<\/span>
up the stairs<\/span>
\u2013 waking half the<\/span>
neighbourhood<\/span>
in the process \u2013<\/span>
and get his wife<\/span>
out of bed<\/span>
to come down<\/span>
and make us coffee<\/span>
and sandwiches<\/span>

and when he got<\/span>
a microwave oven<\/span>
we had to go round<\/span>
that night too<\/span>
and his wife<\/span>
had to get up<\/span>
and do us<\/span>
jacket potatoes<\/span>
so we could see<\/span>
how quickly they cooked<\/span>

he was so proud<\/span>
of the fact<\/span>
that they only took<\/span>
about five minutes<\/span>
I didn't like to say<\/span>
mine was still hard<\/span>
in the middle<\/span>
and besides<\/span>
his wife might not<\/span>
have got up again<\/span>



ELDERLY JESUS<\/span>

I always seemed to see him<\/span>
around the city<\/span>
with his long white hair<\/span>
and beard<\/span>
and in the summer<\/span>
wearing only shorts<\/span>

I imagined him to be<\/span>
an artist of some description<\/span>

and then just before Christmas<\/span>
I visited a craft fair<\/span>
and he was there<\/span>
with his miniature paintings<\/span>
of religious scenes<\/span>
and it struck me<\/span>
that he resembled<\/span>
an elderly Jesus<\/span>

maybe returned from the dead<\/span>


\u2022 Colin Cross is a regular IS&T contributor, he lives in Norwich and has had poetry published in small press zines throughout the UK, Europe and USA.<\/span>
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JACKET POTATOESwhen we werekicked out of the pubin the early hoursof the morningwe would sometimesgo back toBig Jock Bob's houseand he would shoutup the stairs\u2013 waking half theneighbourhoodin the process \u2013and get his wifeout of bedto come downand make us coffeeand sandwichesand when he gota microwave ovenwe had to go roundthat night tooand his wifehad […]<\/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-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}