{"id":1583,"date":"2009-02-06T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2009-02-06T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T14:27:00","slug":"paul-handleys-hit-a-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/paul-handleys-hit-a-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Handley&#39;s hit a roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Roadblock<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Cortisone reduces my bruised ego,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">when spiked with a scathing aside to my prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">My eldest girl is in hireling bliss,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">his shirt done up with bolo affectation.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The dark ages descent is hastened by the lack of standards. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Wrist curls in the lavatory,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">lend me another unexpected source of strength.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Blot away the perspiration,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">redab the underside of my forearm\u2019s prominent veins,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">But anti-heroes joined in sullen cacophony have its appeal.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">My memoir is on the daily schedule,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">to elucidate what is civil.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I am a monk transcribing in the violent shade.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">* Paul Handley spent a career as a student and a student of odd jobs.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RoadblockCortisone reduces my bruised ego,when spiked with a scathing aside to my prot\u00e9g\u00e9.&nbsp;My eldest girl is in hireling bliss,his shirt done up with bolo affectation.The dark ages descent is hastened by the lack of standards. &nbsp;Wrist curls in the lavatory,lend me another unexpected source of strength.Blot away the perspiration,redab the underside of my forearm\u2019s prominent 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