{"id":16270,"date":"2018-05-12T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2018-05-12T06:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T06:26:31","slug":"john-sweet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-sweet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"john sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>trajectory, reversed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>or january sunlight on<br \/>\ncinderblock buildings<\/p>\n<p>lives wasted but not yours<br \/>\nand maybe not mine and it\u2019s a long<br \/>\nroad from kandinsky to lydon and<br \/>\nafter that<br \/>\nyou\u2019re on your own<\/p>\n<p>just water dripping into<br \/>\na stained kitchen sink<\/p>\n<p>a view of empty parking lots<br \/>\nand dirty snow<\/p>\n<p>not suicide but absolute<br \/>\nhatred turned inward<\/p>\n<p>bare walls stained with grease and<br \/>\na long useless history and<br \/>\njesus christ<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t you kill for just a<br \/>\nmouthful of broken glass?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>john sweet<\/strong>, b 1968, still numbered among the living.\u00a0 A believer in writing as catharsis.\u00a0 An optimistic pessimist.\u00a0 His latest collections include\u00a0<span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<em>Bastard Faith<\/em> (2017 Scars Publications) and the limited edition <em>Heathen Tongue<\/em>\u00a0(Kendra Steiner Editions).<\/span>\u00a0 All pertinent facts about his life are buried somewhere in his writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; trajectory, reversed or january sunlight on cinderblock buildings lives wasted but not yours and maybe not mine and it\u2019s a long road from kandinsky to lydon and after that you\u2019re on your own just water dripping into a stained kitchen sink a view of empty parking lots and dirty snow not suicide but [&hellip;]<\/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-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","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=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16556,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}