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Garage Roof Gods<\/strong><\/p>\n mine is to know us sour milk teardrops such were the days, gut laughter, spat whispers with Stanley precision and for mine is the kingdom, <\/p>\n Gary Studley<\/strong> is an artist, writer and Canterbury Roman Museum’s Poet in Residence. As one of the Canterbury Festival’s Laureate Squad he’s performed at many festivals and runs writing workshops. Gary also teaches art and lives on the Kent coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garage Roof Gods mine is to know us by sump-oiled ditches of flowing gossip unproven or choke-weed culverts, seldom navigated sour milk teardrops over kicked-in fences burnt tattoos, gutter-flung Ratners pins and needles afternoons was drunk! defences such were the days, years of tall stories through UHU headclamps river bank drinking and Sunday […]<\/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-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","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=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9702,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby sump-oiled ditches
\nof flowing gossip unproven
\nor choke-weed culverts,
\nseldom navigated<\/p>\n
\nover kicked-in fences
\nburnt tattoos, gutter-flung Ratners
\npins and needles afternoons
\nwas drunk! defences<\/p>\n
\nyears of tall stories
\nthrough UHU headclamps
\nriver bank drinking
\nand Sunday league glories<\/p>\n
\nhoarse throat accusers,
\npetty arson n damp-hedge sex,
\nthe borstal diaries
\nof soon to run losers<\/p>\n
\nbig men in leather
\nmouths slack, punched glass
\nfiddled metres and
\nKay\u2019s dreams forever n never<\/p>\n
\nAmen<\/p>\n