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The Night Before<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A bed by a motorway, close by hospital<\/p>\n A sheet for cover, diesel-thick air.<\/p>\n An open window, door-slams and fried onions,<\/p>\n Dusk as long-winded as the heat wave.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A truck judders down on its shocks.<\/p>\n From grey rush of tarmac and a scald of light,<\/p>\n A slow headache crawls over my pillow<\/p>\n A low gear chugging in a distant lay-by.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ken Evans<\/strong> is an Higher Education Marketing Manager living in the Peak District. He has had travel articles published by The Guardian<\/em> and won prizes in regional arts festivals for his poetry. Ken was most recently published by the Human Rights Consortium in an anthology called \u00a0In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights<\/em>, available on Amazon\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Night Before A bed by a motorway, close by hospital A sheet for cover, diesel-thick air. An open window, door-slams and fried onions, Dusk as long-winded as the heat wave. A truck judders down on its shocks. From grey rush of tarmac and a scald of light, A slow […]<\/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-6912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912","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=6912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6912\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}