{"id":2140,"date":"2012-04-07T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T12:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2012-04-07T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T13:02:50","slug":"philippe-blenkiron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/philippe-blenkiron\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippe Blenkiron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Examined Life of Dr. X<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O, former tennis-player!<br \/>\nYour closet rasps with the bones<br \/>\nof carbon-fibre skeletons<\/p>\n<p>where the leads of divorce-lost dogs<br \/>\nhang &#8211; their slack ligaments \u2013<br \/>\nand noose your marriage muscle.<\/p>\n<p>O, maker of uncomfortable party guests!<br \/>\nYour wallet-moths flutter dusty<br \/>\nover my best wine, telling tales<\/p>\n<p>of white whales speared by rival seamen;<br \/>\nof doctorates in all that you once did.<br \/>\n<em>You, sir, need a project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O, troubled ornithologist!<br \/>\nYour binoculars only magnify<br \/>\nyour desperate doe-eyed sight-slit<\/p>\n<p>and your depth perception? \u2013 Atrocious!<br \/>\nYou break my tables with your cyclopean visage.<br \/>\n<em>Perhaps it\u2019s best if you left.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O, pig-iron sculptor of retrospection!<br \/>\nYour choice in taxi-firm gases my petunias,<br \/>\nand they weep to your hemlock-breath slurred<em> Adieu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, you are the talk of the floor, absent sleb.<br \/>\nThe dregs of your glass; a narcissian pool,<br \/>\nand the carpet-trodden amuse-bouche<br \/>\nbests the bust of Socrates as centrepiece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippe Blenkiron<\/strong> holds an MA in Creative Writing from Keele University. His work has been previously published in Shoestring Magazine and recently saw him shortlisted for the &#8216;Roy Fisher Prize for Poetry&#8217;. He is currently focused on a project concerning a saga of Narrative\/Dialogue poems, a selection of which are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/pustoi.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pustoi.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Examined Life of Dr. X O, former tennis-player! Your closet rasps with the bones of carbon-fibre skeletons where the leads of divorce-lost dogs hang &#8211; their slack ligaments \u2013 and noose your marriage muscle. O, maker of uncomfortable party guests! Your wallet-moths flutter dusty over my best wine, telling tales of white whales speared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","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=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}