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How you\u2019ll describe me to your grandchildren<\/strong><\/p>\n I like to make you laugh, but worry Tell them I was funny, then, if you like, Remember that the times you said I was being mean, You are such good, clever, unfathomable children, Right now, you think I can repair everything you break In fact, tell them what you like about me, I won\u2019t know. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ben Banyard<\/strong> lives and writes in Portishead, near Bristol. His debut pamphlet, Communing<\/i>, was published by Indigo Dreams in 2016, and a full collection, We Are All Lucky<\/i>, is due out from the same press in 2018. Ben blogs at <\/span> https:\/\/benbanyard.wordpress. How you\u2019ll describe me to your grandchildren I like to make you laugh, but worry that\u2019s not the substance fathers are made of. Tell them I was funny, then, if you like, but don\u2019t be afraid to say that I shouted sometimes. Remember that the times you said I was being mean, I was […]<\/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-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","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=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15443,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat\u2019s not the substance fathers are made of.<\/p>\n
\nbut don\u2019t be afraid to say that I shouted sometimes.<\/p>\n
\nI was tired, or sad, or worried, or afraid.<\/p>\n
\nbut it\u2019s easy to lose sight of that sometimes.<\/p>\n
\nbut I might let you down on that score one day.<\/p>\n
\nBut please give them my love.<\/p>\n