{"id":20302,"date":"2019-11-03T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20302"},"modified":"2019-11-03T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:19:07","slug":"anthony-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anthony-watts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interrogation at the Womb Door<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(<em>with a nod to Ted Hughes)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who goes there?\u00a0 <em>Body and Soul<\/em>.<br \/>\nAnything else to declare?<br \/>\nBefore you pass through the eye of the needle,<br \/>\nYou can leave them in our tender care.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sending that equipment to the Centre of Research<br \/>\nTo see just how your lifelines scan.<br \/>\nIf the parish priest can\u2019t use your soul,<br \/>\nWe know a lot of guys who can.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a man with a scalpel and he\u2019s hungry for love:<br \/>\nHe\u2019s heard your heart is full;<br \/>\nAnd your brains are on the menu in the restaurant above,<br \/>\nWhere they serve them up with fine electric wool.<\/p>\n<p>Hurry along now; there\u2019s plenty of room;<br \/>\nWe\u2019re taking you all for a ride.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll sign your birth certificate then show you to your tomb<br \/>\nWhen we get you on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Who goes there?\u00a0<em> Body and Soul<\/em>.<br \/>\nAnything else to declare?<br \/>\nWell, we want you travelling light through our legislated midnight<br \/>\nAnd it looks just like you\u2019re hiding something there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Watts<\/strong> has been writing \u2018seriously\u2019 for over 40 years.\u00a0 He has won prizes and had poems published in magazines and anthologies.\u00a0 His latest collection is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paekakarikipress.com\/?content=publications.php\">Stiles<\/a> .\u00a0 Anthony\u2019s \u00a0main interests are poetry, music and walking.<i> <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Interrogation at the Womb Door (with a nod to Ted Hughes) Who goes there?\u00a0 Body and Soul. Anything else to declare? Before you pass through the eye of the needle, You can leave them in our tender care. We\u2019re sending that equipment to the Centre of Research To see just how your [&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-20302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20302","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=20302"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20418,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20302\/revisions\/20418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}