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The Day I Fired Alan Sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n I said look big guy, enough\u2019s enough.\u00a0 When it comes to the intricacies of macroeconomics and the bell curve, let\u2019s face it, you\u2019re not lord of the manor are you? Despite his rough, tough demeanor he was a pussy cat and sank like a pound coin down the sofa: his life was in tatters, please just one more chance, blah blah.\u00a0 When he calmed down he said his real love was playing Big Bill Broonzy on an old acoustic guitar.\u00a0 Would I like to hear something?\u00a0 Ever the entrepreneur he whipped the instrument from the small of his pocket and launched into \u2018Nobody Knows You When You\u2019re Down And Out\u2019.\u00a0 I was stunned.\u00a0 In all my years in business I\u2019d never heard such talent, pure as a silk kimono.\u00a0 Of course, that was a long time ago, but I know he\u2019s still doing well. Last night for instance, he graced the QVC channel, demonstrating the latest range in George Foreman\u2019s \u2018Lean Mean Grilling Machine.\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tony Vowles<\/strong>‘ poetry has previously appeared in Magma, Smiths Knoll, Agenda, The Interpreters House, Tears in the Fence,<\/em> Dawntreader, Nutshell, Prole, Fourteen, Under The Radar<\/em> and Ink, Sweat & Tears.\u00a0<\/em> He is completing MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Day I Fired Alan Sugar I said look big guy, enough\u2019s enough.\u00a0 When it comes to the intricacies of macroeconomics and the bell curve, let\u2019s face it, you\u2019re not lord of the manor are you? Despite his rough, tough demeanor he was a pussy cat and sank like a pound coin […]<\/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-7071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","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=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}