{"id":1286,"date":"2008-06-24T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2008-06-24T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:55:18","slug":"new-poetry-by-geoff-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-poetry-by-geoff-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry by Geoff Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOVERS<\/span>


This is the vacuum of the day<\/span>
night takes the light<\/span>
and you with your superior tugging strength<\/span>
take the duvet away<\/span>
with your extra lung capacity<\/span>
breathe all my air<\/span>
Please turn down your heartbeats<\/span>
you are ruining my silence<\/span>
upsetting my sleep<\/span>
and your dreams are infringing on my dreams<\/span>
Keep to your own side<\/span>
you're giving me claustophobia<\/span>
your elbows are weird<\/span>
they have four sharp bones on them<\/span>
you're bruising my ribs<\/span>
your snoring's out of tune<\/span>
It's upsetting the regularity of my breathing<\/span>
you'll bring on my angina<\/span>
WHAT NOW!<\/span>
No, I don't feel like it.<\/span>
I don't want a cheese sandwich.<\/span>
You have one if you want one<\/span>
and don't keep asking me things<\/span>
can't you see<\/span>
I'm asleep!<\/span>



\u2022 Geoff Stevens is a regular contributor to IS&T \u2013 see R\/H side-bar for details of his latest collection.<\/span>
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LOVERSThis is the vacuum of the daynight takes the lightand you with your superior tugging strengthtake the duvet awaywith your extra lung capacitybreathe all my airPlease turn down your heartbeatsyou are ruining my silenceupsetting my sleepand your dreams are infringing on my dreamsKeep to your own sideyou're giving me claustophobiayour elbows are weirdthey have four […]<\/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-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}