{"id":770,"date":"2010-08-08T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=770"},"modified":"2010-08-08T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T09:31:03","slug":"colin-cross-is-drinking-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-cross-is-drinking-to-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Cross is drinking to forget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three short poems by regular IS&T contributor Colin Cross<\/span>…<\/span>



DRINK TO FORGET<\/span>

I can't say<\/span>
I drink to forget<\/span>
because<\/span>
I always remember<\/span>
drinking<\/span>

even<\/span>
if everything else<\/span>
is a blank<\/span>


<\/font><\/p>\n

# # # # #<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


NOTHING<\/span>

nothing exciting<\/span>
has happened<\/span>
to me lately<\/span>
therefore<\/span>
I have nothing<\/span>
to write about<\/span>

but rather than<\/span>
write nothing<\/span>
I thought<\/span>
I'd write this<\/span>
instead<\/span>


<\/font><\/p>\n

# # # # #<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


SIGN<\/span>

the sign read<\/span>
“No Smoking”<\/span>
but everybody did<\/span>

that must be a sign<\/span>
of something<\/span>


<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three short poems by regular IS&T contributor Colin Cross…DRINK TO FORGETI can't sayI drink to forgetbecauseI always rememberdrinkingevenif everything elseis a blank # # # # # NOTHINGnothing excitinghas happenedto me latelythereforeI have nothingto write aboutbut rather thanwrite nothingI thoughtI'd write thisinstead # # # # # SIGNthe sign read“No Smoking”but everybody didthat must be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}