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library<\/strong><\/p>\n at the end of the sixties i lived in the books it was bright, comfy shelves i wanted a label people could take me out <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Originally from North Wales, Roddy Williams<\/strong> lives and works in London. His poetry has appeared in Magma, The North, \u00a0The Frogmore Papers, The Rialto, Envoi<\/em> and most recently in the Great Weather for Media<\/em> anthology The Other Side of Viole<\/em>t. \u00a0blog: roddywilliamsblog.wordpress. library at the end of the sixties i lived in a library took out the tintin books i had a card i lived in the books when the library was closed they had to return me or they’d get a fine it was bright, comfy shelves and some tables and chairs i […]<\/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-16739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739","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=16739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16740,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16739\/revisions\/16740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ni lived in a library
\ntook out the tintin books
\ni had a card<\/p>\n
\nwhen the library was closed
\nthey had to return me
\nor they’d get a fine<\/p>\n
\nand some tables and chairs
\ni could drown in the breath of
\nthe ghosts of dead trees<\/p>\n
\nto stick on my forehead
\nthen i could live there
\nsleep in the ghostforest
\nright through the seventies<\/p>\n
\nthat would be nice
\nbut they’d have to return me
\nor they’d get a fine<\/p>\n