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Routine Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n A wooden javelin, midway through my paunch, *<\/p>\n I somersault in a tank of boiling blood The facility was installed below Nine floors up, and over the door One level between these two is empty *<\/p>\n A life, midway through my shade, <\/p>\n Routine Comedy A wooden javelin, midway through my paunch, lost me my life. * I somersault in a tank of boiling blood with an arrow through my heart pointing \u2018this way up\u2019. The facility was installed below Moscow\u2019s Dante Alighieri Library following a large endowment. Nine floors up, and over the door […]<\/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-12584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584","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=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13346,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions\/13346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlost me my life.<\/p>\n
\nwith an arrow through my heart
\npointing \u2018this way up\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nMoscow\u2019s Dante Alighieri Library
\nfollowing a large endowment.<\/p>\n
\na sign says \u2018Please keep
\nas many petals as genitals on each bed.\u2019
\nSomeone has crossed out \u2018petals\u2019
\nand put \u2018razors\u2019 instead.<\/p>\n
\nsave for a thin slab of ice on the floor
\nscratched with \u2018WATER BOARD\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nwill grow in the form of a dark tree.<\/p>\n
\nChris Kerr<\/strong>\u2019s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Ambit, Oxford Poetry <\/em>and Under the Radar.<\/em> He is a trustee of Magma Poetry<\/em> and has guest edited an issue of Meniscus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"