{"id":86,"date":"2012-02-23T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=86"},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:03:01","slug":"deborah-alma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/deborah-alma\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Alma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still Life<\/span>

Rigby\u2019s approach is to sweep things under the carpet.<\/span>
Sometime, he hoovers them up,<\/span>
But then he can\u2019t sleep<\/span>
Imagines them still alive in the clear plastic cylinder,<\/span>
The ugly words,<\/span>
The cunts the bastards the bitches<\/span>
That lay wriggling round her,<\/span>
That he threw, not imagining the mess.<\/span>
Next time, under the carpet.<\/span>
Definitely. Yes.<\/span>
Then, if there\u2019s still life there,<\/span>
He will not see<\/span>
As he stamps and stamps and stamps.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>*Deborah Alma<\/span>
\n was born in London and lives in Ludlow. She writes poetry, runs poetry
\nworkshops for children and dementia sufferers and is studying for an MA
\nin Creative Writing at Keele University. She is also Emergency Poet in
\nher 1960's ambulance.
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Still LifeRigby\u2019s approach is to sweep things under the carpet.Sometime, he hoovers them up,But then he can\u2019t sleepImagines them still alive in the clear plastic cylinder,The ugly words,The cunts the bastards the bitchesThat lay wriggling round her,That he threw, not imagining the mess.Next time, under the carpet.Definitely. Yes.Then, if there\u2019s still life there,He will not […]<\/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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}