{"id":5175,"date":"2013-09-09T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T11:35:33","slug":"seth-crook-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/seth-crook-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Crook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Even<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all the flowers<\/p>\n<p>sent by all the world\u2019s hungover<\/p>\n<p>and so apologetic men,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>accumulated,<\/p>\n<p>wrapped in one big bow,<\/p>\n<p>(not bought at the last garage,<\/p>\n<p>at the last minute)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and ferried, with a tune,<\/p>\n<p>by all the best dressed pipers<\/p>\n<p>of the Lords of the Isles,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>won\u2019t quite do. Not today.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll go to the shed, I think,<\/p>\n<p>contemplate the life of mice,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>creep to bed<\/p>\n<p>when the light is out.<\/p>\n<p>Keep to my side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seth Crook<\/strong> taught philosophy at various universities before moving to the Hebrides. He does not like cod philosophy in poetry. But he does like cod, poetry and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This poem has previously appeared in <em>Gutter<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Even &nbsp; all the flowers sent by all the world\u2019s hungover and so apologetic men, &nbsp; accumulated, wrapped in one big bow, (not bought at the last garage, at the last minute) &nbsp; and ferried, with a tune, by all the best dressed pipers of the Lords of the Isles, &nbsp; won\u2019t [&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-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5178,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}