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Emperor<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The emperor stands at the roadside, grinning<\/p>\n He wears a ready smile,<\/p>\n And dusty, once black shoes.<\/p>\n On his shoulder, the weight of the world,<\/p>\n A yellow satchel of homework.<\/p>\n He is only fourteen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sucks at cricket, runs his feet around<\/p>\n A football, often gets passed by.<\/p>\n We do not see his blue blood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Had the Ahom kings lived on,<\/p>\n Our Moyukh would one day be<\/p>\n King of the World<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is funny, he would say, from his perch,<\/p>\n A tree branch, by the street.<\/p>\n Watching how things turned out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Amlanjyoti Goswami<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in The Caravan, Mint, IQ: The Indian Quarterly, Indian Literature<\/em> (Sahitya Akademi), The North East Review<\/em> and The Poetry Shed<\/em>. His stories have been published by Himal SouthAsian <\/em>and Papercuts: Desi Writers Lounge<\/em>.\u00a0 He grew up in Guwahati, Assam and lives in Delhi.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emperor The emperor stands at the roadside, grinning He wears a ready smile, And dusty, once black shoes. On his shoulder, the weight of the world, A yellow satchel of homework. He is only fourteen. Sucks at cricket, runs his feet around A football, often gets passed by. We do […]<\/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-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","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=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}