{"id":150,"date":"2011-01-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-01-28T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T18:00:00","slug":"bob-johnson-is-enjoying-unicorn-dumplings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bob-johnson-is-enjoying-unicorn-dumplings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Johnson is enjoying unicorn dumplings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unicorn Dumplings<\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
we\u2019re chasing a lovely ghost<\/span>
through a shrapnel storm.<\/span>
 <\/span>
hurricane windsock tongues<\/span>
& anarchist party favors<\/span>
 <\/span>
bellow revolution hymns<\/span>
above an anxious orchestra<\/span>
 <\/span>
of red sirens, blue bruises<\/span>
car fires and bone thumps.<\/span>
 <\/span>
freedom looks magical<\/span>
painted in bloody screams.<\/span>
 <\/span>
head wound says social change<\/span>
is like unicorn dumplings;<\/span>
 <\/span>
it doesn\u2019t exist. it never has.<\/span>
oh, thank you so much officer.<\/span>
 <\/span>
I\u2019ve always wondered<\/span>
how my nose would look<\/span>
 <\/span>
purple, staring up at me<\/span>
from a dirty sidewalk.<\/span>
 <\/span>
zeal hopes next time will<\/span>
be better. If we're lucky,<\/span>
they\u2019ll kill every one of us.<\/span>
 <\/span>


* Bob Johnson<\/span> lives in Texas and writes “This is my first submission to IS&T. But, I have been enjoying the poetry and prose for awhile. I especially enjoyed <\/span>Coffee Cup<\/span> by Kelly Oziemblo, which I might have never had the joy of reading if you hadn't posted it. It is brilliant. Thanks for that.”<\/span>

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Unicorn Dumplings  we\u2019re chasing a lovely ghostthrough a shrapnel storm. hurricane windsock tongues& anarchist party favors bellow revolution hymnsabove an anxious orchestra of red sirens, blue bruisescar fires and bone thumps. freedom looks magicalpainted in bloody screams. head wound says social changeis like unicorn dumplings; it doesn\u2019t exist. it never has.oh, thank you so much officer. I\u2019ve always wonderedhow my nose would look purple, […]<\/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-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}