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Conchita reads Pablo Picasso\u2019s letter to God<\/strong> Your committee for time-keeping has ruled You call me precocious but Pablo, honestly You\u2019re a stickler for timeliness, trying prayer on for size, gambling paint <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Born in Northern Ireland in 1976, \u00a0Jo Burns<\/strong> now lives in Germany after spells in Chile and England.\u00a0 Her poems have been published\u00a0or are forthcoming in:\u00a0A New Ulster, Poetry Breakfast, The Galway Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The Irish Literary Times, The Literateur, Four x Four, Shot Glass Journal, Picaroon and Poetry Pacific<\/em>. Her poems have been\u00a0highly commended by Munster Lit: Fool For Poetry Chapbook Competition 2016 and listed for the Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2016. \u00a0\u00a0 Twitter@joburnspoems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conchita reads Pablo Picasso\u2019s letter to God (while he is painting) Your committee for time-keeping has ruled diphtheria a highly unpunctilious event. By consensus you can\u2019t seem to remember this being planned into any agendas. You call me precocious but Pablo, honestly it\u2019s you that Mama has always adored, Papa ignores me, […]<\/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-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","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=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(while he is painting)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ndiphtheria a highly unpunctilious event.
\nBy consensus you can\u2019t seem to remember
\nthis being planned into any agendas.<\/p>\n
\nit\u2019s you that Mama has always adored,
\nPapa ignores me, I can\u2019t even draw.
\nIt\u2019s all planned for you so perfectly.<\/p>\n
\nand planned these years differently.
\nYou have the domestic dates regulated
\nbut I heard you, silently<\/p>\n
\nfor my life. You waver\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 clandestine.
\nYour brushstrokes will sacrifice us all
\nand I will be the first in line.<\/p>\n