{"id":1455,"date":"2008-11-07T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2008-11-07T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T12:17:40","slug":"melanie-browne-is-having-dark-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/melanie-browne-is-having-dark-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Browne is having dark thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if Manson<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
What if Manson had<\/span>
carved a<\/span>
rainbow into<\/span>
his forehead instead<\/span>
of a swastika?<\/span>
 <\/span>
Everyone knows that<\/span>
rainbows are<\/span>
only illusions<\/span>
 <\/span>

~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>

 <\/span>
after mixing Nyquil with Dramamine <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
After mixing Nyquil with Dramamine,<\/span>
she realized<\/span>
there was no boat<\/span>
 <\/span>
she looked down<\/span>
at the<\/span>
sandals dirty with road grime<\/span>
and thought<\/span>
 <\/span>
“those are my feet”<\/span>
 <\/span>
And she realized she was<\/span>
carrying a large filthy dog<\/span>
And that she was laughing<\/span>
inappropriately<\/span>
 <\/span>
Her legs<\/span>
felt like sea legs anyway<\/span>


* Melanie Browne Melanie burns a lot of microwave popcorn, but not on purpose. She lives in Texas, a place with a lot of armadillos. You can find more of her poems at Madswirl<\/span>.
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What if Manson  What if Manson hadcarved arainbow intohis forehead insteadof a swastika? Everyone knows thatrainbows areonly illusions ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ after mixing Nyquil with Dramamine   After mixing Nyquil with Dramamine,she realizedthere was no boat she looked downat thesandals dirty with road grimeand thought “those are my feet” And she realized she wascarrying a large filthy dogAnd that she was […]<\/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-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","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=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}