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Troubling the Absinthe<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Set the flame and drip water through the sugar brick,<\/p>\n protect yourself against the sickness.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let the green fairy dance & dart between your eyes,<\/p>\n dropping beautiful lies.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hide like a r\u00e9sistance fighter,<\/p>\n prepare to \u00e9pater la bourgeoisie,<\/p>\n burn their bridges, blow up their clocks,<\/p>\n call for a return to a belle \u00e9poque.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tonight we\u2019ll light the wormwood fires<\/p>\n & raise our glasses to the crime,<\/p>\n we\u2019ll let the anise juices fill our veins<\/p>\n & absinthium fill our minds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark William Jackson<\/strong>\u2019s work has appeared in various journals including; Best Australian Poems, Popshot, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Rabbit Poetry Journal, Verity La and Tincture. For more information visit <\/span>http:\/\/markwmjackson.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Troubling the Absinthe Set the flame and drip water through the sugar brick, protect yourself against the sickness. Let the green fairy dance & dart between your eyes, dropping beautiful lies. Hide like a r\u00e9sistance fighter, prepare to \u00e9pater la bourgeoisie, burn their bridges, blow up their clocks, call […]<\/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-13749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749","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=13749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13751,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749\/revisions\/13751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}