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Urban Chaos Part 7<\/strong><\/p>\n Over and over, problems take the political route. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Grey<\/strong> is an Australian poet, US resident. Recently published in the Homestead Review, Poetry East and Columbia Review with work upcoming in Harpur Palate, the Hawaii Review and North Dakota Quarterly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Urban Chaos Part 7 Over and over, problems take the political route. Politician on TV: yes there’s urban chaos and we are seeing into it besides says another, it’s not just neighborhoods in decline, moral values descend the closer you are to the inner city. A map with plenty of pins explains […]<\/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-18114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114","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=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18281,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions\/18281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPolitician on TV:
\nyes there’s urban chaos<\/span>
\nand we are seeing into it<\/span>
\nbesides says another,
\nit’s not just neighborhoods in decline,<\/span>
\nmoral values descend<\/span>
\nthe closer you are to the inner city.<\/span>
\nA map with plenty of pins
\nexplains exactly where he’s talking about.<\/span>
\nSome black preacher says something about
\nthe imminent lateness of the promised future<\/span>
\nand how there’s some folks don’t know<\/span>
\nwhat goes on in the streets<\/span>
\nor don’t want to know.<\/span>
\nMeanwhile, on Monday, men sit behind fat desks
\nand plan the coming week’s excuses.<\/p>\n