{"id":1271,"date":"2008-06-12T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2008-06-12T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T08:24:00","slug":"three-short-poems-by-colin-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-short-poems-by-colin-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Three short poems by Colin Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOBER OR MISSED<\/span>
 <\/span>

the first two people<\/span>
I spoke to in the pub<\/span>
tonight<\/span>
were so drunk<\/span>
that when they spoke<\/span>
they spat all over me<\/span>
 <\/span>
the third person<\/span>
was either sober<\/span>
or missed<\/span>
 <\/span>
<\/font> <\/font>
<\/font>~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span><\/font>
 <\/font>
 <\/span> <\/span>
QUIET MAN<\/span>
 

<\/span>ninety per cent<\/span>
of what<\/span>
most people say<\/span>
is bollocks<\/span>
 <\/span>
I just say<\/span>
the ten per cent<\/span>
that isn't<\/span>
 <\/span>
<\/font> <\/font>
<\/font>~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span><\/font>
<\/font>
<\/font> <\/span> <\/span>
WISHING AND HOPING<\/span>
 

<\/span>standing<\/span>
in the kitchen<\/span>
dying<\/span>
for a drink<\/span>
holding<\/span>
a bottle of water<\/span>
wishing<\/span>
I was Jesus<\/span>



\u2022 Colin Cross lives in Norwich and is a regular IS&T contributor<\/span>

<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SOBER OR MISSED the first two peopleI spoke to in the pubtonightwere so drunkthat when they spokethey spat all over me the third personwas either soberor missed  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~   QUIET MAN ninety per centof whatmost people sayis bollocks I just saythe ten per centthat isn't  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  WISHING AND HOPING standingin the kitchendyingfor a drinkholdinga bottle of waterwishingI […]<\/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-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}