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Will the last person to leave…<\/strong><\/p>\n please leave empty cans piled into pyramids Food waste and packaging will be neatly bagged. Leave one sleeping bag open and careless Seventeen slates will be removed from the roof Please leave three pairs of shoes in a neat line. Remove a single hinge from each door Pigeon skeletons will be collected and scattered; Please remove the loft hatch and leave your spirit <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John C. Nash <\/strong>finally settled down as a self-employed bookbinder and writer in Northampton, England. His poetry has been published in various magazines including Antiphon, Cake, The Delinquent, Verse Kraken<\/em> and Lighthouse<\/em> . He co-edited the anthology\u00a0 Making Contact<\/em> for Ravenshead Press and is currently working on a collaborative project with the photographer Sam Webster. Will the last person to leave… please leave empty cans piled into pyramids in each corner. Some of these may fall like civilisations, others may not. Food waste and packaging will be neatly bagged. These bags will fill each cupboard to indigestion level. When each cupboard is full the wrappers must decorate the […]<\/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-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","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=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin each corner. Some of these may fall
\nlike civilisations, others may not.<\/p>\n
\nThese bags will fill each cupboard to indigestion level.
\nWhen each cupboard is full the wrappers
\nmust decorate the floors in esoteric patterns.<\/p>\n
\nfor a mattress. A second sleeping bag will be left
\nzipped and slumped in such a position
\nas to suggest a bodybag in daylight hours
\nor a body by torchlight.<\/p>\n
\nto let the rain in. This will rot the floorboards and joists
\nof the upper floor and, in turn, allow the rain
\ninto the ground floor to puddle the tiles
\nand create a carpet of moss.
\nLath-bones must be exposed.<\/p>\n
\nBlack oxfords; brown brogues; Hi-Tec trainers.
\nBeside these leave a stack of lifestyle magazines
\nopened at choice pages to confuse the inquisitive.<\/p>\n
\nand window so that they hang askew.<\/p>\n
\none carcass will be hung by its feet from crossed rafters
\non a frayed piece of blue polypropylene rope.<\/p>\n
\nin the shadows to look down on those who trespass.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"