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Measured in syllables, The surgeon looks at his handiwork <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n George Aird<\/strong> is a postgraduate student at Durham University, as well as an assistant editor of poetry at Butcher\u2019s Dog Magazine<\/em>. He is currently based in the North East of England, and can be found on Twitter at @G_Aird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Doctor Will See You (As A Piece of Meat, Until You Start Bleeding Everywhere) Measured in syllables, the distance between the kitchen door and table is not enough to avoid the question. The way that silence makes a mess of you if you really bite into it. The way the bone celebrates […]<\/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-14834","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\/14834","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=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15307,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions\/15307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Doctor Will See You (As A Piece of Meat, Until You Start Bleeding Everywhere)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nthe distance between the kitchen door and table
\nis not enough to
\navoid the question.
\nThe way that silence
\nmakes a mess of you
\nif you really bite into it.
\nThe way the bone
\ncelebrates a break
\nwith a crack of applause.<\/p>\n
\nand is pleased by the naked flesh.<\/p>\n