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Social Control<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019d lay about all day Doesn\u2019t seem to mind and clamp his jaws shut, <\/strong><\/p>\n Jack Houston<\/strong> works for Hackney’s public library service. He is co-editor of Nutshell Magazine and is a member of the radical London housing cooperative Breaking Ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social Control He\u2019d lay about all day if given the chance. On his back, legs kicking the air on occasion. I raise his lead. He lifts his head and cocks it. Doesn\u2019t seem to mind me attaching the rope to his neck and yanking to show I\u2019m in charge. I take a […]<\/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-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","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=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions\/7286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nif given the chance.
\nOn his back, legs kicking
\nthe air on occasion.
\nI raise his lead. He
\nlifts his head and cocks it.<\/p>\n
\nme attaching the rope
\nto his neck and yanking
\nto show I\u2019m in charge.
\nI take a cloth muzzle
\nfrom my pocket<\/p>\n
\nthis should stop him fighting.
\nHe follows me out obediently,
\nuntil he gets a whiff
\nof a weed-on tree and pulls
\nmy arm from its socket.<\/p>\n