<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Taking the Piss<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018I hear you\u2019re a tough guy\u2019 <\/p>\n John D Robinson<\/strong> is a UK poet; his work appears widely in the small press and online literary journals; he has published 2 chapbooks When You Hear The Bell There’s Nowhere To Hide<\/em> and Cowboy Hats & Railways<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taking the Piss \u2018I hear you\u2019re a tough guy\u2019 Eddie said as we stood at the urinals; \u2018That\u2019s bullshit\u2019 I said grinning \u2018I\u2019m the toughest\u2019 Eddie finished and zipped- up and waited for me, I finished, zipped-up walked over to the basin washed my hands looking at Eddie in the mirror, he […]<\/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-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418","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=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14419,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions\/14419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEddie said as we stood at
\nthe urinals;
\n\u2018That\u2019s bullshit\u2019
\nI said grinning
\n\u2018I\u2019m the toughest\u2019
\nEddie finished and zipped-
\nup and waited for me,
\nI finished,
\nzipped-up
\nwalked over to the basin
\nwashed my hands
\nlooking at Eddie in the
\nmirror,
\nhe stood still
\nwatching me,
\nI turned around to face
\nEddie
\n\u2018You going to wash your
\nhands Eddie?\u2019
\nI asked
\n\u2018Fuck no\u2019
\nEddie said
\n\u2018Then don\u2019t ask me for a
\ndance later\u2019
\nI said grinning
\nEddie laughed
\nnervously and then
\nsaid
\n\u2018I don\u2019t dance\u2019
\n\u2018Well, fuck-you\u2019
\nI said
\nand waited for his move;
\nhe stepped over to the
\nwash basins and
\nwashed his hands and
\nsaid looking at me
\n\u2018Maybe later\u2019
\n\u2018Maybe\u2019
\nI said.<\/p>\n