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Woodrow Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n For my ninth birthday<\/p>\n my grandparents gave me a book<\/p>\n of presidents which stopped at JFK.<\/p>\n I often leafed through it, skimming<\/p>\n the few paragraphs on each,<\/p>\n which never criticized–<\/p>\n they all had magic<\/p>\n it would seem.\u00a0 But #28\u2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I taped a paper over his face.<\/p>\n He looked like he could dash out<\/p>\n of the binding and eat me alive.<\/p>\n Woodrow Wilson.\u00a0 A stern-faced<\/p>\n Princeton prof.\u00a0 I later learned<\/p>\n he worked to the point of strokes<\/p>\n to get countries to talk<\/p>\n instead of fight.\u00a0 Yet ramped up<\/p>\n segregation, admiring<\/p>\n Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/p>\n for its Ku Klux crapping.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The book yellows in the basement<\/p>\n under cat litter and a few<\/p>\n cracked 45s.\u00a0 Wilson, is that you<\/p>\n I hear wandering up the stairs?<\/p>\n In your tidy suit?\u00a0 Your white sheet?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kenneth Pobo<\/strong> had a book out from Circling Rivers in 2017 called Loplop in a Red City.<\/em>\u00a0 Forthcoming is a book of prose poems called The Antlantis Hit Parade<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Woodrow Wilson For my ninth birthday my grandparents gave me a book of presidents which stopped at JFK. I often leafed through it, skimming the few paragraphs on each, which never criticized– they all had magic it would seem.\u00a0 But #28\u2014 I taped a paper over his face. He looked […]<\/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-15857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857","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=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}