{"id":1277,"date":"2008-06-17T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2008-06-17T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:39:28","slug":"bobby-parker-has-an-unfinished-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bobby-parker-has-an-unfinished-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Parker has an unfinished manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

unfinished manuscripts (neglecting her needs) <\/span>


I got a bunch of hahahas in my underwear drawer<\/span>
next to a copy of Poetry For Fools and a <\/span>
half-smoked joint… I take them out <\/span>
and rattle them in the streets like neon chains <\/span>
advertising This New Time To Be Getting Along <\/span>
With People We Secretly Hate… <\/span>
I call them dream-star-solar-henrymiller-<\/span>
magic-sex-revolution-mirror-bells-of-luck… <\/span>
but my girl, well, she calls them <\/span>
stinky ball-sacks filled <\/span>
with what's left of my heart <\/span>
and O my armpits cradle them now <\/span>
like tiny silver violins and, <\/span>
as I sweat-drip these words, they play to you so sadly<\/span>
it would break your heart if I were to tell you what, <\/span>
if anything, all of this means.<\/span>



\u2022 Bobby Parker is 25, lives in Kidderminster (England) has poems published\/accepted in\/by A<\/span>genda, Obsessed With Pipework, Fire, Iota, Rain Dog, Cauldron, The Coffee House, Curlew, Krax, Weyfarers, Purple Patch<\/span> and <\/span>Urban District Writers<\/span>.   <\/span>
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unfinished manuscripts (neglecting her needs) I got a bunch of hahahas in my underwear drawernext to a copy of Poetry For Fools and a half-smoked joint… I take them out and rattle them in the streets like neon chains advertising This New Time To Be Getting Along With People We Secretly Hate… I call them […]<\/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-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}