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Sun Bet<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was sure the sun would win, so I put a bet on<\/p>\n 9-1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I bet Egypt, Mexico and most of Spain<\/p>\n I bet Lorca, too, for that matter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And you were somewhere in the sky, chasing birds<\/p>\n You heard me scream from the bookies when I lost<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then the land went dark and impenetrable<\/p>\n and the hills kept silent and looked away<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They knew, as did the seas, the mountains, the forests<\/p>\n They must\u2019ve had a hot tip, or something<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Mac<\/strong> is one of the greatest forklift drivers to emerge from the UK. His words have appeared in many mags, journals, zines, sites and blogs. He hides out somewhere deep in the Bedfordshire Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sun Bet I was sure the sun would win, so I put a bet on 9-1 I bet Egypt, Mexico and most of Spain I bet Lorca, too, for that matter And you were somewhere in the sky, chasing birds You heard me scream from the bookies when […]<\/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-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","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=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}