{"id":12201,"date":"2021-09-14T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T10:20:34","slug":"poetry-kevin-higgins-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/poetry-kevin-higgins-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Kevin Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This Is Not a Well Made Poem<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The well made poem puts on its dicky bow,<br \/>\nwalks to the top of the hill,<br \/>\nand has what it calls an epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem sees every side of the argument,<br \/>\nexcept those proscribed by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem has between<br \/>\ntwelve and twenty five lines,<br \/>\nall roughly the same length.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem worries<br \/>\nabout Afghanistan (and before that<br \/>\nVietnam) only when the situation there<br \/>\nmight lead to the whole idea<br \/>\nof the well made poem<br \/>\nbeing vaporised<br \/>\nby a device left at the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem plans to bury<br \/>\nGK Chesterton, William Wordsworth, Sir John Betjeman<br \/>\nand, eventually, Sir Andrew Motion<br \/>\nunder its sparkling new patio.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem never mentions<br \/>\nthe puppy processing factory<br \/>\nit knows you own, or your preference<br \/>\nfor televised inter gender wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>The well made poem believes<br \/>\nnuclear weapons are necessary<br \/>\nto keep poems like it safe<br \/>\nfrom all the rough language<br \/>\ngathered ungovernable at the border<br \/>\nforever threatening to invade it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>\nFeature Image: &#8220;Baker Shot&#8221;, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll in 1946.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is Not a Well Made Poem The well made poem puts on its dicky bow, walks to the top of the hill, and has what it calls an epiphany. The well made poem sees every side of the argument, except those proscribed by the BBC. The well made poem has between twelve and twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":12219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4087,5184,5187,5194,5219,5226,7341],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-higgins","tag-kevin","tag-kevin-higgins","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins-the-well-made-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}