{"id":19278,"date":"2019-06-13T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:38:19","slug":"19278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/19278\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Coppola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some Streets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some streets have doors that don\u2019t open<br \/>\nSome streets have curbs waiting to be bitten<br \/>\nSome streets have curtains to hide the inside<br \/>\nSome streets have cars with scratches on every side<br \/>\nSome streets have houses that cast no shadows<br \/>\nSome streets have faces lined with sorrows<br \/>\nSome streets have streetlights that don\u2019t work for miles<br \/>\nSome streets have faces that can\u2019t seem to smile<br \/>\nSome streets have corners for every prostitute<br \/>\nSome streets have benches for beds for the destitute<br \/>\nSome streets have potholes that will break both your feet<br \/>\nSome streets have nowhere for people to meet<br \/>\nSome streets have bus stops without the right timetables<br \/>\nSome streets have shoes tangled in cables<br \/>\nSome streets have chimneys without any smoke<br \/>\nSome streets have stumps where their used to be oaks<br \/>\nSome streets have drains too mucky to be flowing<br \/>\nSome streets have bins that are always overflowing<br \/>\nSome streets have engines revving all night<br \/>\nSome streets have balloons popping mid-flight<br \/>\nSome streets have gutters filled to the brim<br \/>\nSome streets have fences with spikes round the rim<br \/>\nSome streets have posh ends where the grass is greener<br \/>\nSome streets have poor ends where the grass smells stronger<br \/>\nSome streets have graffiti telling me \u2018Paul\u2019s a wanker\u2019<br \/>\nSome streets have fly tipping that couldn\u2019t be ranker<br \/>\nSome streets have blind people listening to TV<br \/>\nSome streets have deaf people watching TV<br \/>\nSome streets have old men waving at school girls<br \/>\nSome streets have swine that have swallowed the pearls<br \/>\nSome streets have screaming at 2am in the morning<br \/>\nSome streets have clubs that are so so boring<br \/>\nSome streets have reports that put them on someone\u2019s list<br \/>\nSome streets have neighbours that seem really really nice but are really really racist<br \/>\nSome streets have screens reflecting on dry eyes<br \/>\nSome streets have suns that set but never rise<br \/>\nSome streets have moons that are always half full<br \/>\nSome streets have pubs with hardly anyone in them all<br \/>\nSome streets have parks with signs that say \u2018Keep Off\u2019<br \/>\nSome streets have Vladivar bottles instead Smirnoff<br \/>\nSome streets have White Lightning instead of Magner\u2019s<br \/>\nSome streets have Wiggles songs instead of Wagner\u2019s<br \/>\nSome streets have caf\u00e9s with hygiene ratings of one<br \/>\nSome streets have gunshots to duck or run from<br \/>\nSome streets have closed signs on the local bar<br \/>\nSome streets have pigeon shits on every car<br \/>\nSome streets have dog shit everywhere and dog\u2019s always barking<br \/>\nSome streets have cat shit everywhere and cat\u2019s always screeching<br \/>\nSome streets have fox shit everywhere and fox\u2019s always fucking<br \/>\nSome streets have shoeless feet covered in sores<br \/>\nSome streets have diseases without any cures<br \/>\nSome streets have children up against doors<br \/>\nSome streets have husbands settling scores<br \/>\nSome streets have the fallen holding onto floors<br \/>\nSome streets have trails of sweat leaking from pores<br \/>\nSome streets have breakings of hundreds of laws<br \/>\nSome streets have houses fighting endless, pointless, no-win wars<br \/>\nThat\u2019s some streets \u2013 now tell me about yours<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luigi Coppola<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luigicoppolapoetry.blogspot.co.uk\">www.luigicoppolapoetry.blogspot.co.uk<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0teaches and writes in London, England. Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize twice, he appeared in the Worple Press anthology <em>The Tree Line<\/em> and publications include <em>Acumen, The Frogmore Papers, Iota, Magma, Orbis, Neon, Rattle, The Rialto, THE SHOp <\/em>and<em> Snakeskin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Some Streets Some streets have doors that don\u2019t open Some streets have curbs waiting to be bitten Some streets have curtains to hide the inside Some streets have cars with scratches on every side Some streets have houses that cast no shadows Some streets have faces lined with sorrows Some streets have [&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-19278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278","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=19278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19335,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19278\/revisions\/19335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}