{"id":1288,"date":"2008-06-26T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2008-06-26T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T15:55:50","slug":"poets-dont-fit-in-by-ken-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/poets-dont-fit-in-by-ken-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets don&#39;t fit in &#8211; by Ken Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Not Fitting In<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><font size=\"2\">No one at the table believes <br \/>in the helpfulness of gods or poetry.<br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br \/>Good-humoured, you sit and chat, replete <br \/>among emptied plates and glasses, <br \/>towards a comforting consensus:&nbsp; self-interest <br \/>is the driver, you agree. <\/p>\n<p>The needs of others never feature<br \/>in your calculations.&nbsp; Why should they?<\/p>\n<p>Upstairs, a door slams, sudden <br \/>raindrops smack against open windows, <br \/>car wheels sloosh over wet tarmac.<br \/>Time, as always, is passing.<\/p>\n<p>Someone asks why write poetry if there\u2019s<br \/>no money in it.&nbsp; What good is that?<\/p>\n<p>You remember:&nbsp; stone Buddha image <br \/>so tall it took your breath away,<br \/>young monk on tiptoe, smiling, arm <br \/>outstretched towards a golden fingertip.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022&nbsp; Ken Head&#39;s poetry weblog is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listeningforlight.blogspot.com\">www.listeningforlight.blogspot.com<\/a> and he&#39;ll appreciate your dropping in to browse and maybe leave a comment if you&#39;re passing.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Fitting In No one at the table believes in the helpfulness of gods or poetry. Good-humoured, you sit and chat, replete among emptied plates and glasses, towards a comforting consensus:&nbsp; self-interest is the driver, you agree. The needs of others never featurein your calculations.&nbsp; Why should they? Upstairs, a door slams, sudden raindrops smack [&hellip;]<\/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-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}