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Swaggering up Upper St <\/p>\n Vivien Thomason<\/strong> has recently retired and resumed writing poetry after 40 years of having her creativity totally sapped by the fashion industry. She is particularly focused on themes of family, feminism, art and nature. This is her first submission ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Louche Old Man in Tartan Trousers Swaggering up Upper St Denim jacket Wild grey hair 70 if a day Heading to the Hope and Anchor? Dragging on a Soubrani What have you lived through? Slick liner eyes Satin snake drooped round your neck Slithering on stage in the 70s? Then pinned and […]<\/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-19044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044","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=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19181,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions\/19181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLouche Old Man in Tartan Trousers<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDenim jacket
\nWild grey hair
\n70 if a day
\nHeading to the Hope and Anchor?
\nDragging on a Soubrani
\nWhat have you lived through?
\nSlick liner eyes
\nSatin snake drooped round your neck
\nSlithering on stage in the 70s?
\nThen pinned and studded
\nThe trousers strap-legged
\nHanging with Viv and Malcolm?
\nBassist in a dozen bands?
\nPopping pills sporadically?
\nBowery and you always in at Taboo?
\nFirst at the Dirtbox?
\nBeatifically smiley Ibiza parteees?
\nAll night up in Heaven?
\nTatted and pierced beneath?
\nSoho clubs? Muse to Lee McQueen? East end art collective? GQ Stylist? Spoken word rap poet?
\nAnd when you were with all
\nYour lovers, partners, friends
\nDid your cool always keep you warm at night?
\nAnd in the day?
\n <\/p>\n