I said already,
\nStaring quietly at the sun,
\n‘Raising my own adaptation of otters
\nA procession that incalculably owns up to
\nIts relationships
\nAnd whether down the Brixton lanes
\nOr Oregon, or on the border of Nairobi
\nOr over Walt Witma’s graves
\nIt will provide
\nIt won’t abide
\nThis is my employment plan’
\n‘But sir’
\n‘But do not strain it like a cloth map
\nTesting coffee
\nI just wouldn’t advise it.’<\/p>\n
I don’t say in public spaces
\nMore
\nFor such impoliteness draws the tanks
\nThe thinking and the military,
\nAnd the angelic choirs of unethical naive loyalists
\nWho know no better but the nice side of the perpetual tragedy
\nBut I whisper it here
\nWho searches for the material in metaphor
\nAnd finds one when in truth
\nIts no metaphor
\nBut nonsense
\nYes, the absurdity of dignity
\nThe treasure of disreputable comraderie
\nAnd the sumptuous curvatures of insanity
\nDerived and contented to be derived
\nThey will lead a procession
\nJust as original as I succeed in being
\nJust as representative too
\nAnd it will be so simple
\nAnd so nice
\nAnd it won’t be for the record
\nIt will be unobservable
\nProud as raking<\/p>\n
Let’s not measure
\nThe storms in the teacups of each other’s lives
\nWindspeed like a cliff dive
\nFive point seven
\nRichter’s dead
\nAnd every angle is at eleven
\nAnd protractors fail
\nWe come together
\nTo reform our god-forsaken pact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I said already, Staring quietly at the sun, ‘Raising my own adaptation of otters A procession that incalculably owns up to Its relationships And whether down the Brixton lanes Or Oregon, or on the border of Nairobi Or over Walt Witma’s graves It will provide…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32063,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31826\/revisions\/32063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}