<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Room Laughed<\/strong><\/p>\n The room laughed. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sten Rod Ramkhur<\/strong>\u00a0is a previously unpublished middle-aged poet currently living in the Shetland Islands.\u00a0 They have worked for many years as a librarian across Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Room Laughed The room laughed. \u201cI don\u2019t know why people laugh” He said. “The man who used to sit in the middle there Well he hung himself last week. This is a serious disease. I don\u2019t know why people laugh\u201d Our eyes raise The roof above white as paper. We prayed […]<\/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-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","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=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20664,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why people laugh”
\nHe said.
\n“The man who used to sit in the middle there
\nWell he hung himself last week.
\nThis is a serious disease.
\nI don\u2019t know why people laugh\u201d
\nOur eyes raise
\nThe roof above white as paper.
\nWe prayed that night \u2028For the empty chair.
\nThe hanged man.\u2028The sad disease.
\nThe laughing room.<\/p>\n