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Wednesday\u2019s Homework<\/strong><\/p>\n (Set: five Latin verbs, an essay on Lord Palmerston The letter\u2019s still on the hallstand though, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert Nisbet<\/strong> was for some years an associate lecturer in creative writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen. His poems appear in magazines such as The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter\u2019s House, Dream Catcher, The Journal, Prole, Scintilla<\/em> and Hobo Camp Review<\/em> (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday\u2019s Homework (Set: five Latin verbs, an essay on Lord Palmerston and problems on a parallelogram.) Walks home with Jinks, who says the girls are on for Saturday, straight now. That Joan, she fancies him. And home, Mum\u2019s there, cold squash, Swiss roll. (Her breathlessness is not so bad today.) Just hope his […]<\/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-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","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=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand problems on a parallelogram.)
\nWalks home with Jinks, who says the girls are on
\nfor Saturday, straight now. That Joan, she fancies him.
\nAnd home, Mum\u2019s there, cold squash, Swiss roll.
\n(Her breathlessness is not so bad today.)
\nJust hope his father will be in for supper
\nand won\u2019t go out again tonight.
\n(Writes history essay.)
\nHis father\u2019s back, the whisky smell\u2019s quite light.
\n(Does the verbs, the parallelogram.)
\nReads just a chapter more in Copperfield
\nand then a wodge of Biggles. Some television,
\nbed and the radio beneath the bedclothes,
\nRadio Luxembourg\u2019s cave of sentiment.
\nNow really remembers Saturday and Joan, the girls,
\nthe O My God of it. Downstairs
\nhis Mum\u2019s, his Dad\u2019s, two voices blur
\nto a hum beneath the television set.
\nSo pleased his Dad\u2019s not out again tonight.<\/p>\n
\nthe hospital one.<\/p>\n