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A Consensus<\/strong><\/p>\n One bright morning in December, the court agreed unanimously that: *For Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal (1919-73), the seventh prime minister of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sam Burt <\/strong>is a copywriter\/tutor in east London. He writes poetry and fiction and has enjoyed success in\u00a0Writer’s Magazine<\/em>\u00a0competitions\u00a0and the 1000 Word Challenge. His non-fiction has appeared in the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and at\u00a0Book Riot\u00a0and the\u00a0Huffington Post<\/em>. He is working on a novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Consensus One bright morning in December, the court agreed unanimously that: the former prime minister was two months dead; he was guilty of treason in absentia; he had committed suicide while awaiting trial; he had died suddenly in prison; he had kicked himself to death; his fingernails had been seen in […]<\/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-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072","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=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19224,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions\/19224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe former prime minister was two months dead;<\/span>
\nhe was guilty of treason in absentia;<\/span>
\nhe had committed suicide while awaiting trial;<\/span>
\nhe had died suddenly in prison;
\nhe had kicked himself to death;
\nhis fingernails had been seen in the Ministry of Interior;
\nthe rest of him was missing;
\nhe had plotted too soon;
\nhe had acted too late;
\nhis coup had been thwarted;
\nthe revolution had been saved;
\npoetry would be safe again;
\nhe had been an unexceptional figure;
\nhis achievements were limited;
\nhis ambitions had been impractical;
\nhe felt at home in London and Washington;
\nhe was popular with students;
\nthere were too many students and not enough soldiers;
\nthere were too many students and not enough jobs;
\nthere were too many students;
\nhe was sentenced to death;
\nhis body, if found, be hanged;
\nlong-term investment in industry was needed;
\ndried fruit exports looked promising;
\na factory made three tons of ice a day;
\nRussians bought 40,000 tons of cement;
\nRussians paved the capital\u2019s streets;
\nthe former prime minister had no children;
\nhe could not leave politics alone;
\nhis supporters were educated, agreeable men;
\nand all agreeable men were now in agreement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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