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I have no fear now<\/strong><\/p>\n After two years with the shrink And I know how to use them; I\u2019m not a spanner in that sense. I am improved on; faults taken and made new. Nothing to be <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Claire Sexton<\/strong> has been a librarian for almost 30 years. She now lives in London but hails originally from Cardiff in South Wales. She is 47 but has only just found the courage to start trying to get her work published.\u00a0 Twitter: @gingirlsexton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have no fear now After two years with the shrink I consider myself \u2018upgraded\u2019, not cured. I have more cogs in the toolbox; more spanners, and other useful tools. And I know how to use them; I\u2019m not a spanner in that sense. No one can open me up like a floor lamp […]<\/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-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797","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=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI consider myself \u2018upgraded\u2019, not cured.
\nI have more cogs in the toolbox; more spanners,
\nand other useful tools.<\/p>\n
\nNo one can open me up like a floor lamp or old chime-less clock;
\ntake the parts out and explore me; hands, fingers and greasy-ass
\nthumbs.<\/p>\n
\nashamed of now. I rise up and look steadily; transfixed, with acuity,
\ntop-notch. There is nothing wrong with my eyesight now. I have
\nnew spectacles. They are purple and they rock.<\/p>\n