{"id":520,"date":"2010-01-20T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-01-20T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:48:50","slug":"colin-cross-is-listening-to-music-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-cross-is-listening-to-music-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Cross is listening to music – and other things"},"content":{"rendered":"

MUSIC<\/span>
 <\/span>
music<\/span>
never lets me down<\/span>
I can play it<\/span>
whenever I wish<\/span>
and switch it off<\/span>
when I want to<\/span>
without it complaining<\/span>
 <\/span>
it relaxes me<\/span>
I can play<\/span>
a certain CD<\/span>
without all the others<\/span>
getting jealous<\/span>
and I don't<\/span>
have to buy them drinks<\/span>
before they'll<\/span>
give me pleasure<\/span>
 <\/span>
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <\/span>
 <\/span>
MISS HER<\/span>
 <\/span>
I only miss her<\/span>
when she's not there<\/span>
 <\/span>
when she's there<\/span>
I don't miss her<\/span>
at all<\/span>

~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>

THE HANGING<\/span>

the artist<\/span>
already damaged<\/span>
from a previous<\/span>
suicide attempt<\/span>
by jumping<\/span>
from a bridge<\/span>
hanged himself<\/span>
in the former church<\/span>
now an art gallery<\/span>
where he was<\/span>
the caretaker<\/span>

I guess<\/span>
he just wanted<\/span>
to be part<\/span>
of the exhibition<\/span>


<\/font>* Colin Cross<\/span> is a regular IS&T contributor. His latest CD Crip Tick and the Bee Levers<\/span> is available free to anyone who wants to send an SAE (IRCs abroad) to Cnut Records, 37 Wellington Green, Norwich NR2 1HG.
 <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MUSIC musicnever lets me downI can play itwhenever I wishand switch it offwhen I want towithout it complaining it relaxes meI can playa certain CDwithout all the othersgetting jealousand I don'thave to buy them drinksbefore they'llgive me pleasure ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  MISS HER I only miss herwhen she's not there when she's thereI don't miss herat all~ ~ […]<\/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-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}