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I Slept with Raymond Chandler<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was terse to the point<\/p>\n of silence. No snoring.<\/p>\n No tussles over the duvet.<\/p>\n He didn’t kick or lash out.<\/p>\n Like a couple of babes,<\/p>\n we slept and I dreamt<\/p>\n of a hat, a coat and a gun.<\/p>\n When I came to, Ray<\/p>\n was flat out on the pillow,<\/p>\n the bookmark in place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joan Byrne<\/strong> has read her poems at The Poetry Caf\u00e9, Peckham Literary \u00a0Festival and other venues. Published in small poetry press. Member of Southwark Stanza. Her photos and words appear at www.joanbyrne.co.uk<\/a> and a book she has published at www.blurb.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Slept with Raymond Chandler He was terse to the point of silence. No snoring. No tussles over the duvet. He didn’t kick or lash out. Like a couple of babes, we slept and I dreamt of a hat, a coat and a gun. When I came to, Ray was flat […]<\/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-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","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=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}