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Super Mario<\/strong><\/p>\n And so it began <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Steve Mearns<\/strong> 52 lives in Shropshire with his partner. Steve has been writing poetry for 3 years and has had poetry published in Down in the Dirt<\/em> and Mudfish<\/em> magazines. His work has also been performed live at the Poetry Cafe in Chicago; he is looking for his first published work in the UK.\u00a0 Twitter – @stavmrontz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super Mario And so it began For me back in seventy eight On a thick set T.V. Way out past bedtime. The commentator\u2019s sotto voice The colours, so vivid Splashed on green, orange And stripes Adorned in blue and white And a long haired, long sleeved God The anointed number ten Manly, […]<\/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-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","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=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor me back in seventy eight
\nOn a thick set T.V.
\nWay out past bedtime.
\nThe commentator\u2019s sotto voice
\nThe colours, so vivid
\nSplashed on green, orange
\nAnd stripes
\nAdorned in blue and white
\nAnd a long haired, long sleeved God
\nThe anointed number ten
\nManly, moustachioed
\nSuper Mario Kempes
\nSpinning, stopping, turning
\nA shot, the checker ball
\nSlow motion rolling
\nBeyond the Oranje –
\nTicker tape immortality
\nI\u2019m standing, shoeless
\nIn pyjamas, and i don\u2019t know why
\nAnd so it began
\nFor me back in seventy eight<\/p>\n