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The Chocolate Parliament<\/strong><\/p>\n In summer the facade drips sweet brown sweat. It\u2019s tastiest around election time when the walls Contingency plans exist to whip the building The PM favours a jam-cemented Victoria sponge use by and best before.\u00a0 Our bodies will harden allergens, sugar, saturates, kilojoules per serving. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Stephenson<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in Envoi, Iota, Magma, The North <\/em>and The Rialto<\/em>.\u00a0 His first collection Travellers and Avatars<\/em> was shortlisted for the Live Canon First Collection Prize and will appear in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Chocolate Parliament In summer the facade drips sweet brown sweat. Tourists like to nibble the carvings, especially the gargoyles speckled with raisins and almonds. It\u2019s tastiest around election time when the walls soften in the heat of spotlights orbited by flies sucking news through microphone probosces. Contingency plans exist to whip […]<\/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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14718","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=14718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14718\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTourists like to nibble the carvings, especially
\nthe gargoyles speckled with raisins and almonds.<\/p>\n
\nsoften in the heat of spotlights orbited by flies
\nsucking news through microphone probosces.<\/p>\n
\ninto a mousse topped with cherries and cream.
\nA cross-party committee is tasting the recipe.<\/p>\n
\nboxed with a snowflake logo and the legend
\nSuitable for Home Freezing.\u00a0 Thus we will cheat<\/p>\n
\nin coffins of ice, crystalline at minus eighteen,
\nour packaging bristling with warnings listing<\/p>\n
\nPotential energy.\u00a0 Fuel for the gut of the fat man
\nwho drools at the glass as the microwave sings.<\/p>\n