{"id":144,"date":"2011-01-25T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:53:42","slug":"david-mac-thinks-there-is-something-fishy-about-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/david-mac-thinks-there-is-something-fishy-about-today\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mac thinks there is something fishy about today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something Fishy About Today<\/span>
 <\/span>
Dead fish floating on the surface of the sky,<\/span>
your smile is like a red bag of nails,<\/span>
your heart is black mud,<\/span>
your skin \u2013 cool as glass.<\/span>
Bubbles fizz in my bottle, they<\/span>
measure time,<\/span>
the time in which we<\/span>
don\u2019t say a word.<\/span>
This silence can kill but<\/span>
there\u2019s no such thing as silence anyhow.<\/span>
Deep down I want my ideas to eat you.<\/span>
Deep down I want to say something complex,<\/span>
profound, something that\u2019ll<\/span>
make your eyes shine like crystals<\/span>
and not them<\/span>
dirty old pennies.<\/span>
Here, rattle your thoughts and drink up.<\/span>
The sun\u2019s coming out and<\/span>
I want to see<\/span>
what is looks like.<\/span>


<\/font>* David Mac's<\/span> work has appeared in Ambit, Mud Luscious, This Zine Will Change Your Life, <\/span>a couple of poetry anthologies, regularly in Clockwise Cat<\/span> and Monkey Kettle<\/span>. His debut collection The Luton Ghoul Booms<\/span> a A5, 52-page booklet, is available for \u00a32.50 from lutonghoul@hotmail.co.uk<\/a> <\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

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Something Fishy About Today Dead fish floating on the surface of the sky,your smile is like a red bag of nails,your heart is black mud,your skin \u2013 cool as glass.Bubbles fizz in my bottle, theymeasure time,the time in which wedon\u2019t say a word.This silence can kill butthere\u2019s no such thing as silence anyhow.Deep down I want […]<\/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-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}