{"id":7459,"date":"2014-10-07T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2014-10-04T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T09:09:16","slug":"sally-long-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sally-long-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paradox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intelligence focused:<br \/>\nan obsessive inquiry<br \/>\ninto metaphysics,<br \/>\ncircumoral muscles<br \/>\ncomplex in climaxes,<br \/>\nwaiting for a star<br \/>\non planet earth.<\/p>\n<p>Psychotic breakdown:<br \/>\nstaring at the air<br \/>\nfestooned in red,<br \/>\na Kremlin funeral,<br \/>\nhuge hypertrophic<br \/>\nslaughterhouse<br \/>\nboring you mindless.<\/p>\n<p>Postmodern liaisons:<br \/>\npicked up on the cusp,<br \/>\na couple of plateaus<br \/>\nobscure and unknown,<br \/>\nbeautiful to see,<br \/>\nmoving with nonchalance<br \/>\nin a million little ways.<\/p>\n<p>An abstract pastel:<br \/>\nintractable unhappiness<br \/>\ncast at obtuse angles,<br \/>\nhimself a grotesque<br \/>\nradical compression,<br \/>\na transcendent<br \/>\npractitioner of an art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally Long<\/strong> is a postgraduate student of creative writing at the University of East London and has had poems published in print and online magazines in the UK and US including <em>Agenda, Haiku Journal, London Grip, Prole <\/em>and<em> Snakeskin.<\/em> When not writing poetry she works as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/sports\/the-string-theory-0796 <http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/sports\/the-string-theory-0796> &#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;> The String Theory David Foster Wallace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Paradox Intelligence focused: an obsessive inquiry into metaphysics, circumoral muscles complex in climaxes, waiting for a star on planet earth. Psychotic breakdown: staring at the air festooned in red, a Kremlin funeral, huge hypertrophic slaughterhouse boring you mindless. Postmodern liaisons: picked up on the cusp, a couple of plateaus obscure and unknown, [&hellip;]<\/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-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","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=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}