{"id":449,"date":"2011-11-24T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=449"},"modified":"2011-11-24T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:43:19","slug":"david-macs-sleeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/david-macs-sleeper\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mac&#39;s &#39;Sleeper&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The Sleeper<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">he stalked thru the world <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">feeling the flowers as he ran<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">every time he lost it <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">it was usually found under his bed<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">in the evening as the sun went down <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">he looked up<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">the birds were melting in the trees<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">David Mac<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> is a poet from the Bedfordshire Hell. He has collections out with Erbacce Press and Knives Forks &amp; Spoons Press. His new poetry magazine is called <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Meat Songs<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> and is open to submissions:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MEAT SONGS<\/span>. New UK poetry magazine. Words must be meaty, beaty, like a raw nail, a dirty tooth, a mean blues, urban, street, sweaty groin, outcast, rebel, punk, unwanted, underground, beery language, mind dribbles, fast, sudden, spontaneous mad talk, sexual groanings, bar blurs, strangeness, poetry eating itself, plus also tiny poetry pips, head blips and trinkets, like modern town haiku. Darkness. Eternal sighs. &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/>Submissions should be 5 pages of poems and emailed to <a href=\"mailto:lutonghoul@hotmail.co.uk\">lutonghoul@hotmail.co.uk<\/a> as one Word attachment.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/>Issue 1 &amp; 2 featuring Bobby Parker, Geoff Stevens, Paul Tanner, Simon Robson, Chris Guidon, Henry Blake, and David Mac, available from email above for \u00a32.50 each.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sleeper&nbsp;he stalked thru the world feeling the flowers as he ran&nbsp;every time he lost it it was usually found under his bed&nbsp;in the evening as the sun went down he looked up&nbsp;the birds were melting in the trees&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;David Mac is a poet from the Bedfordshire Hell. 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