{"id":2943,"date":"2017-02-21T02:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?page_id=2943"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:51:20","slug":"john-d-robinson-winter-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

We All Knew\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

 
\nAll of us knew
\nthat he was 65
\nyears old
\nwith a dozen or
\nmore screws in
\nhis lower spine
\nand hands like
\narthritic claws and
\nthat he was
\nstreet-homeless;
\nwe all knew this
\nand did nothing
\nas he hobbled
\naway into the
\nfreezing rain to
\ngo live back on
\nthe streets,
\nall of us knew this
\nand we did nothing
\nbecause a policy
\nstated we should
\ndo so; he didn\u2019t
\nmeet an invented
\ncriteria of need
\nand we watched him
\nwalking away
\nwe all knew
\nand felt fucking
\nuseless because
\nsome stuffed asshole
\nsomewhere, being
\npaid handsomely,
\nmade some
\ndecisions, not
\nknowing of anything
\noutside of a
\nprecious fucking
\nbudget;
\nwe all knew
\nand when he was out
\nof sight
\nwe all knew
\nthat he\u2019d still
\nbe here
\nright with us.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

John D Robinson was born in 63 in the UK; his poems have appeared widely in the small press and Literary Online Journals; Bareback Lit; Red Fez; Dead Snakes; Chicago Record; Underground Books; Mad Swirl; Poetic Diversity; The Commonline Journal; Yellow Mama; Zombie Logic Review; Poetry Super Highway; The Clockwise Cat; Your One Phone Call; Ink Sweat & Tears; Napalam and Novocain; Bold Monkey; Horror Sleaze and Trash; Outsider Poetry; Hastings Online Times; The Beatnik Cowboy and upcoming work appearing in Locust Magazine, The Legendary; Message In A Bottle; The Sentinel Literary quarterly; Cavalcade Of Stars.<\/em> He is married with 1 daughter, 2 grandchildren, 3 cats, 1 dog and he likes to drink wine and listen to quietness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We All Knew\u00a0   All of us knew that he was 65 years old with a dozen or more screws in his lower spine and hands like arthritic claws and that he was street-homeless; we all knew this and did nothing as he hobbled away into the freezing rain to go live back on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":934,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2943","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nJohn D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We All Knew\u00a0   All of us knew that he was 65 years old with a dozen or more screws in his lower spine and hands like arthritic claws and that he was street-homeless; we all knew this and did nothing as he hobbled away into the freezing rain to go live back on the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-23T16:51:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/\",\"name\":\"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-21T02:37:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-23T16:51:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Archives\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/\",\"name\":\"Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)\",\"description\":\"Archives Of Previous Issues\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)","og_description":"We All Knew\u00a0   All of us knew that he was 65 years old with a dozen or more screws in his lower spine and hands like arthritic claws and that he was street-homeless; we all knew this and did nothing as he hobbled away into the freezing rain to go live back on the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/","og_site_name":"Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)","article_modified_time":"2017-02-23T16:51:20+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/","url":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/","name":"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017 - Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-02-21T02:37:12+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-23T16:51:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/john-d-robinson-winter-2017\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Archives","item":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/archives\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"John D. Robinson, Winter 2017"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/","name":"Full Of Crow: Poetry (Archives)","description":"Archives Of Previous Issues","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2943\/revisions\/2994"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}