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Mr. Wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n Can\u2019t wear the red velvet skirt I love If the roast isn\u2019t on the table at five Look\u2014the forgotten laundry pile has grown I slide to the floor, the sounds start to offer me an enhancement <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charlotte Appleby<\/strong> is a student at Gloucester University and works part-time as a Play Worker.\u00a0She has written articles for online magazines such as Greener Gloucestershire<\/em> and Business Buzz<\/em>. She has published work in Compass: New Writing IV<\/em> (2015) and Reflections: New Writing V<\/em> (2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Wrong Can\u2019t wear the red velvet skirt I love the hem won\u2019t cover bruised knees, can\u2019t talk\u2014shouldn\u2019t talk\u2014to family don\u2019t need them asking me again \u2018why don\u2019t you just leave?\u2019 If the roast isn\u2019t on the table at five o\u2019clock sharp, then he\u2019ll finish work, cheeks flared and shout \u2018bastard woman!\u2019 I\u2019ll […]<\/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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","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=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14443,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions\/14443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe hem won\u2019t cover bruised knees,
\ncan\u2019t talk\u2014shouldn\u2019t talk\u2014to family
\ndon\u2019t need them asking me again
\n\u2018why don\u2019t you just leave?\u2019<\/p>\n
\no\u2019clock sharp, then he\u2019ll finish work,
\ncheeks flared and shout \u2018bastard woman!\u2019
\nI\u2019ll apologise, clasp at his shirt, eyes-closed.<\/p>\n
\nadded unfamiliar lingerie with a torn crotch.
\nSilently, he retreats to the office
\nslamming the door until it splinters.
\nRelief washes over me.<\/p>\n
\nhe\u2019s watching videos\u2014the groans, moans
\nof other women, the blonde one with big tits
\nthe one he likes, the one who inspired him<\/p>\n
\nlike an upgrade of my phone;
\nhe wants a better model.
\nI pushed away loved ones
\nto try to make this home.<\/p>\n