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cheap<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n this love was battered eventually<\/p>\n it started naked with its scales<\/p>\n shining and its eyes vacant<\/p>\n now they are covered<\/p>\n coated and ready<\/p>\n <\/p>\n a flick of batter<\/p>\n to test the temperature<\/p>\n followed by a splash<\/p>\n and disruption of fat<\/p>\n to make this love quickly<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the cook wipes his hand<\/p>\n with a stained blue tea-towel<\/p>\n and returns to his till<\/p>\n punching the numbers<\/p>\n with each definite press<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a35 for this love<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen Daniels<\/strong> is the editor of Amaryllis Poetry. His poetry has been published in numerous magazines and websites. His debut pamphlet\u00a0 Tell Mistakes I Love Them<\/em> was published in 2017 by V. Press. Find out more at www.stephenkirkdaniels.com <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" cheap this love was battered eventually it started naked with its scales shining and its eyes vacant now they are covered coated and ready a flick of batter to test the temperature followed by a splash and disruption of fat to make this love quickly the cook wipes his […]<\/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-15707","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\/15707","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=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15708,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions\/15708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}