{"id":390,"date":"2011-09-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-09-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T11:00:00","slug":"two-poems-from-peter-eustace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-poems-from-peter-eustace\/","title":{"rendered":"Two poems from Peter Eustace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghetto Fashion<\/span>
 <\/span>
Word was out we should<\/span>
Get the red stars. The yellow ones<\/span>
Were going to expire.<\/span>
So we spent all morning<\/span>
Queuing for the new version.<\/span>
I thought <\/span>What if they change<\/span>
Their minds again?<\/span>
And in the confusion  <\/span>
Managed to keep the old model,<\/span>
Just in case. Mind you,<\/span>
It wasn\u2019t long before<\/span>
Green was all the rage. <\/span>
Yellow and red went<\/span>
Completely out of favour.<\/span>
We queued up for them all.<\/span>
Word then went round <\/span>
You could buy a black star<\/span>
That was looked on better<\/span>
And distinctly less eye-catching.<\/span>
I could only afford one of those.<\/span>
Then it was announced<\/span>
That the design would change<\/span>
And all the old stars were<\/span>
To be handed in. I was <\/span>
Fed up and didn\u2019t go.<\/span>
No one, no one at all,<\/span>
Came back from that queue.<\/span>


The Weir<\/span>
 <\/span>
You can cross safely here,<\/span>
Reasonably safely \u2013 <\/span>
You could always slip, <\/span>
Of course, <\/span>
On the stones,<\/span>
Stepping too lightly, <\/span>
Too quickly or too hard.<\/span>
You may not get across.<\/span>
It is up to you<\/span>
To assess the risk.<\/span>
The other side is much<\/span>
The same as over here.<\/span>
You have been informed.<\/span>



*Peter Eustace<\/a> was born in Birmingham, England, in 1954, and has lived in Italy for 35 years. <\/span>His poems have appeared several times in Equinox<\/span> (including once with a water colour by Russi Dordi) , as well as The French Literary Review, Borderlines, Carillon, Trespass <\/span>and Obsessed with Pipework<\/span>. <\/span>He has published two books of poems in English and Italian (Vistas<\/span>, 2006, and Weathering<\/span>, 2010) and a pamphlet (Brink<\/span>, 2009) with erbacce press, Liverpool.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghetto Fashion Word was out we shouldGet the red stars. The yellow onesWere going to expire.So we spent all morningQueuing for the new version.I thought What if they changeTheir minds again?And in the confusion  Managed to keep the old model,Just in case. Mind you,It wasn\u2019t long beforeGreen was all the rage. Yellow and red wentCompletely out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}