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Better<\/strong><\/p>\n Having written <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fraser Harrison<\/strong> has been a freelance writer and broadcaster most of his life,\u00a0and\u00a0he has\u00a0also worked as a publisher and legal representative to detained asylum seekers. He has published ten books and many essays and articles. Please see\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraser_Harrison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Better Having written a truly depressing poem about the brevity of life, the transitory essence of pleasure, how suffering is universal, justice an illusion, and other tragic matters inseparable from Man\u2019s destiny, he felt much better and wondered what was for lunch. Fraser Harrison has been a freelance writer and broadcaster […]<\/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-13376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376","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=13376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13390,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na truly depressing poem
\nabout the brevity of life,
\nthe transitory
\nessence of pleasure,
\nhow suffering is universal,
\njustice an illusion,
\nand other tragic matters
\ninseparable from Man\u2019s destiny,
\nhe felt much better and wondered
\nwhat was for lunch.<\/p>\n