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The Mechanical Turk<\/strong><\/p>\n A neat contrivance of rods and cams <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Cooke<\/strong> has had poems in Agenda, Ambit, The Interpreter\u2019s House, The Irish Times, The London Magazine, Magma, The Manhattan Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review and Stand.<\/em> His latest collection, After Hours,<\/em> is available from Cultured Llama Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mechanical Turk A neat contrivance of rods and cams creates the illusion a hustler seeks. His window dressing perfects the hoax: the turban and robes a thespian\u2019s flourish. This season Mechanicks is all the rage in fairground shows and court, where an empress cheats but can\u2019t outsmart some gadget\u2019s lack of […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821","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=14821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15189,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14821\/revisions\/15189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncreates the illusion a hustler seeks.
\nHis window dressing perfects
\nthe hoax: the turban and robes
\na thespian\u2019s flourish. This season
\nMechanicks is all the rage
\nin fairground shows and court,
\nwhere an empress cheats
\nbut can\u2019t outsmart some
\ngadget\u2019s lack of class. It takes
\na certain kind of flair
\nto plot the chequered board.
\nA wind-up toy takes on the best
\nin Europe\u2019s brightest halls.
\nIts cunning leaps the gap between
\nwhat is thought and done.<\/p>\n