{"id":1546,"date":"2009-01-06T11:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T11:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2009-01-06T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T11:50:03","slug":"peter-weber-is-watching-the-clock-%e2%80%93-and-the-secretaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/peter-weber-is-watching-the-clock-%e2%80%93-and-the-secretaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Weber is watching the clock \u2013 and the secretaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, we're breaking with tradition here as this poem actually has end rhymes but with the UK just getting back to work after the Christmas shut-down, it is more pertinent than usual… CC<\/span><\/p>\n

Heinrich the Hen Teaser<\/span>

Heinrich the hen teaser<\/span>
sits by the door<\/span>
one eye on the clock<\/span>
(its a quarter past 4)<\/span>
she returns from the copier<\/span>
cool, calm and collated<\/span>
her high heels click-clacking<\/span>
her suit understated<\/span>
she leans on the desk<\/span>
to linger and chat<\/span>
Heinrich says little<\/span>
but smiles like a cat<\/span>
at 5 o\u2019clock the typing pool<\/span>
waves off the day<\/span>
boats strewn with orchids<\/span>
go sailing away<\/span>


* Pete Weber says “Biographical note: (E flat), Half baked, fully fledged, out of the frying pan, but still a bit raw.” His blog is at <\/span>http:\/\/pilgebump.wordpress.com<\/a>
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OK, we're breaking with tradition here as this poem actually has end rhymes but with the UK just getting back to work after the Christmas shut-down, it is more pertinent than usual… CC Heinrich the Hen TeaserHeinrich the hen teasersits by the doorone eye on the clock(its a quarter past 4)she returns from the copiercool, […]<\/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-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}