{"id":613,"date":"2010-04-03T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=613"},"modified":"2010-04-03T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T09:19:26","slug":"deborah-gordon-remembers-when-she-had-to-say-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/deborah-gordon-remembers-when-she-had-to-say-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Gordon remembers when she had to say slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"


Slow Down<\/span>


I remember it now<\/span>
it wasn\u2019t Pink Floyd<\/span>
it was Sabbath you enjoyed<\/span>
when I mentioned it,<\/span>
when I mentioned Ozzy <\/span>
at that concert of his in Wembley<\/span>
& you played it loudly<\/span>
as we lay back<\/span>
on your blue leather \u2018shagging sofa\u2019<\/span>
the one with a hole in it<\/span>
smoking a spliff<\/span>
the size of Manhattan<\/span>
& reaching for my breasts<\/span>
as snug as little kittens<\/span>
in their pink lace holding pen<\/span>
& all this happening too fast.<\/span>


* <\/span><\/font>Deborah Gordon<\/span> says “I am a Sussex-based writer of
\npoetry and
\nprose and have been writing since the age of seven. I have had recent  work published with Inclement, Phoenix, The Journal,  Garbaj,
\nSarasvati, The Dawn Treader, Fire<\/span>  and  Again Last Night<\/span>. My first collection of poetry The Bluebells Pray <\/span>(Indigo Dreams
\nPress) is available now.”<\/font>
<\/font>

<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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