{"id":1181,"date":"2015-03-11T03:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T10:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2016-06-09T03:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T10:29:38","slug":"poundland-sonnets-1-a-poundland-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Poundland Sonnets 1: A Poundland Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Capture.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1182\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Capture.png?resize=300%2C178&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Capture.png?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Capture.png?w=617&amp;ssl=1 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A POUNDLAND SONNET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the vacuous naughties the affluent thrum<br \/>\nTheir chubby fingers on the card-less tills<br \/>\nAs the slippery accountants of PWC and RBS swill<br \/>\nTheir caviar down with Vive Cliqout at the parliamentary bash<br \/>\nThe air is full of Quangos and insider trading slang<br \/>\nAs the parade of yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertainers head for the tank<br \/>\nNever have so few been made rich by so many<br \/>\nGated compounds reek of the stench of money<br \/>\nWhilst out in the gutter the poison rain flecks<br \/>\nThe sequined shoes of the stars as the homeless wretch<br \/>\nWherever a buck can be made from a paedophile story<br \/>\nWith a false ID the hacks tear at the fraudulent lying<br \/>\nSatellites spin, <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #676c6c;\" href=\"http:\/\/sildenafil4sale.net\/\">click<\/a> every channel is a Clear Sign<br \/>\nWe are all Poundland remainders now buried alive<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I knew Armitage had written something called Poundland (It is actually one of the worst poems ever written full of fake poetese..yuk) so I \u00c2\u00a0was going to change the title of these &#8216;mock&#8217; sonnets especially as he famously wrote bad sonnets in &#8216;Book of Matches&#8217; and has been duly punished by being doomed to the GCSE Revision Pages of the internet forever more. However as I will not be the last bad sonneteer I thought fuck it here they are&#8230;rants in other words as we approach the shittiest election in years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A POUNDLAND SONNET &nbsp; In the vacuous naughties the affluent thrum Their chubby fingers on the card-less tills As the slippery accountants of PWC and RBS swill Their caviar down with Vive Cliqout at the parliamentary bash The air is full of Quangos and insider trading slang As the parade of yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertainers head for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-politics","category-poundlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-j3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}