{"id":1414,"date":"2008-10-11T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2008-10-11T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T07:05:00","slug":"two-poems-by-phil-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-by-phil-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems by Phil Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do What\u2019s Good For You<\/span>



\n\u201cDirty seaweed,\u201d<\/span>

\nmother says.<\/span>

\n\u201cPut it down<\/span>

\nand eat your burger.\u201d<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>


Lunchtime Black<\/span>


She sits<\/span>
only for an hour.<\/span>
But,<\/span>
there is no golden revelation<\/span>
at the bottom of a snatched paper cup.<\/span>
No answer<\/span>
between nervous bites<\/span>
from a wilted balsa wood sandwich.<\/span>
Not even<\/span>
a smile to the sun,<\/span>
as she beats away the swarm<\/span>
of office edicts,<\/span>
will set her free.<\/span>
    Just a hope<\/span>
that she is not another face<\/span>
amongst this conjurors\u2019 madness of souls.<\/span>
    That alone<\/span>
may see her through.<\/span>



* Phil Lucas' first collection of poetry \u2013 <\/span>Poems from the Seashore<\/span> \u2013 was published in 2006. Earlier this year his first novel \u2013 <\/span>Seaside Tales from Asper St. Jasper<\/span> \u2013 came out, and these two poems come from his second collection \u2013 <\/span>The Silence of the Suburbs, The Call of the Sea<\/span>  (ISBN  978 0955 6682 89) \u2013 which should be appearing anytime now. The publisher is Palores Publications, a tiny poetry only publishers based in Cornwall. <\/span>
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Do What\u2019s Good For You \u201cDirty seaweed,\u201d mother says. \u201cPut it down and eat your burger.\u201d~ ~ ~ ~ ~Lunchtime BlackShe sitsonly for an hour.But,there is no golden revelationat the bottom of a snatched paper cup.No answerbetween nervous bitesfrom a wilted balsa wood sandwich.Not evena smile to the sun,as she beats away the swarmof office […]<\/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-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","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=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}