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I\u2019m imagining a statue but I haven\u2019t yet made up to say why it commemorates But have I mixed grave monuments where villainy and virtue mix? it\u2019s one small step to taxidermy: Or skip the stuffing and the mounting: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Bartholomew-Biggs<\/strong> is poetry editor of the on line magazine London Grip and also helps to run the North London reading series Poetry in the Crypt.\u00a0 His most recent collection is Pictures from a Postponed Exhibition (Lapwing 2014), which features artwork by David Walsh.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chambers of Horror The good the bad and the ugly I\u2019m imagining a statue of a man in anguish standing in a public square; but I haven\u2019t yet made up the proper patriotic words to chisel on its plinth to say why it commemorates the body as an instrument for undergoing pain. But […]<\/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-12009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009","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=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChambers of Horror<\/strong>
\nThe good the bad and the ugly<\/em><\/p>\n
\nof a man in anguish standing
\nin a public square;<\/p>\n
\nthe proper patriotic words
\nto chisel on its plinth<\/p>\n
\nthe body as an instrument
\nfor undergoing pain.<\/p>\n
\nto famous men with glib exhibits
\nin a wax museum<\/p>\n
\nIf scoundrels have to be lampooned
\nin stocks or on a scaffold<\/p>\n
\nstuff and mount the bogey men
\nlike beetles in a box.<\/p>\n
\nstick their severed heads on spikes
\nthen hang them up in chains.<\/p>\n