{"id":1120,"date":"2007-12-10T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2007-12-10T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T11:40:04","slug":"new-prose-poem-by-p-a-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-prose-poem-by-p-a-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"New prose poem by P.A. Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Fivefuckingfuckoffrings<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic;\">Let battle commence against the dole grey world old and charmless pull up your hood be blinkered be unseen be a rising star on CCTV with exuberant flashes of mindless violence and a passion for thievery<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">pick up the phone I\u2019ll let it ring five times the speed at which we nicked the sun and I know it were just a larf but yea we was quick man I mean the speed of light quick hands like camera flashes blur dazzle and it were in our back pocket then we legs it out of breath panting like some obscene phone call what colour is yer knickers pick up the phone why don\u2019t you no good hanging about don\u2019t wona linger yea but we got away with it stupid planets orbit round and round mental like special brew nutter like a central line cruiser got stars in their eyes gone milky way blind give \u2018em the slip when we circled the solar system uranus rising little green men on mars saturn\u2019s rings pick up the phone please we was back by three nice and tidy in time to get the drinks in but there\u2019s old bill large as life sitting in the boozer scratching his nut trying to do sudoku yet over the top of his lager top he\u2019s clocking us and we\u2019re feeling iffy and we\u2019re looking all shifty pick up the phone \u2018cos I fink it\u2019s all gonna kick off but you know what it\u2019s like course you do spend spend spend get flash with the readdies this fing is burning a hole in me pocket I gotta get me thrills and spills and pills have a huge fuck off wad of bish bosh dosh buy me designer wear all the latest gadgets and buttons satellite tracking MP3 camera phone so pick up the fucking phone just one more ring just one more ring \u2018cos I\u2019ve got a bad feeling about today I don\u2019t fink fings are gonna quite go my way now I might be right I might be wrong but I don\u2019t fink we should \u2018ave nicked the fucking sun for fuck\u2019s sake pick up the fucking phone please pick up the phone \u2018cos it\u2019s all gone dark and I can\u2019t find my way home<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic;\">Children of the material age oblivious to when the cornflowers bloom hang around on street corners that bare the names of former heroes who come complete with post codes but beg the question who the fuck are you<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2022 P.A. 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