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Bit Parts<\/strong><\/p>\n I want to ask you, You smile. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Riley<\/strong> is studying for an MA at the Seamus Heaney centre, Queen’s University Belfast. He has had several poems printed and in shop windows,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bit Parts I want to ask you, do you think we\u2019re in a film? If we get our lines wrong will someone step out from the Golden Mile, put us back on track – though they haven\u2019t done yet – the director\u2019s a secretive sod. You smile. I like it when you […]<\/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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474","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=15474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15474\/revisions\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndo you think we\u2019re in a film?
\nIf we get our lines wrong
\nwill someone step out from the Golden Mile,
\nput us back on track –
\nthough they haven\u2019t done yet –
\nthe director\u2019s a secretive sod.<\/p>\n
\nI like it when you touch my face
\nI don\u2019t say, just wait
\nfor your fingers to move from my skin.
\nLike all the other takes, you begin again
\nlook out to sea, wait for your cue.
\nI remember what you haven\u2019t said yet.<\/p>\n