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Denial<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t take the doctor seriously when she says it. \u201cWhat about the people are who are eating themselves to death?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re different,\u201d I say, before explaining He asks me to eat something: a chocolate biscuit, We stay together on the sofa until my panic subsides. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charley Barnes<\/strong> is a writer who hails from Worcestershire. Her poetry is published by the likes of Picaroon, Bonnie\u2019s Crew, and Atrium<\/em> amongst other journals. Her debut poetry pamphlet, A Z-hearted Guide to Heartache<\/em>, is available from V. Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Denial I don\u2019t take the doctor seriously when she says it. On the sofa at home I tell my partner: \u201cOnly skinny people have eating disorders.\u201d \u201cWhat about the people are who are eating themselves to death?\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re different,\u201d I say, before explaining again how eating disorders belong to the skinny, not […]<\/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-17104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104","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=17104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17323,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17104\/revisions\/17323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn the sofa at home I tell my partner:
\n\u201cOnly skinny people have eating disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nagain how eating disorders belong to the skinny,
\nnot the formerly-fat or the trying-to-be-thin.<\/p>\n
\npiece of fruit, slice of toast,
\nwithout adding the calories to my calculator.<\/p>\n
\nI swear to call the number the doctor gave me,
\nand he promises he won\u2019t get the biscuits.<\/p>\n