{"id":1450,"date":"2008-11-04T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2008-11-04T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T10:47:00","slug":"daniel-hickeys-been-stealing-garlic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/daniel-hickeys-been-stealing-garlic\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Hickey's been stealing garlic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I robbed a bulb of garlic from Tesco<\/span>
 <\/span>

I robbed a bulb of garlic from Tesco<\/span>
Today<\/span>
To remember what it feels like to steal something<\/span>
To take something<\/span>
Not freely given.<\/span>
Cause it used to feel like a small act of rebellion<\/span>
Against the corporations<\/span>
But no<\/span>
It didn\u2019t feel like that anymore.<\/span>
And if caught could I have used that explanation<\/span>
We were taught in school, in religion<\/span>
Class?<\/span>
No<\/span>
Even the hungriest person on Earth, the last<\/span>
Hungry man on Earth<\/span>
Would probably not eat<\/span>
A full<\/span>
Uncooked<\/span>
Bulb of garlic.<\/span>
So how did it feel then<\/span>
To steal something<\/span>
To take something<\/span>
Not<\/span>
Freely<\/span>
Given?<\/span>
(Well from them, from Tesco)<\/span>
It felt<\/span>
Neither good<\/span>
Nor bad<\/span>
Made me neither happy<\/span>
Nor sad<\/span>
Though I was glad<\/span>
I saved some time<\/span>
Not having to weigh it.<\/span>
 <\/span>


* Daniel Hickey is from Ireland's Atlantic coast but lives in Dublin, where he sometimes does freelance journalism, sometimes signs on the dole (dines on the soul?) and tries discipline himself into using such free time for writing. He once had his own column in a regional newspaper but was politely asked to leave because of his strange ideas. He has also been published in the <\/span>Mayo Anthology of Poetry<\/span>. <\/span>

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