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Honey Shot<\/strong> Snip, slash in a dirty flat, he gathers I tricked him too, got to the truth, he can\u2019t remember any times he told <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jessica Mookherjee<\/strong> has been widely published. Her\u00a0pamphlets are\u00a0The Swell\u00a0<\/em>(Telltale Press, 2016) and\u00a0Joyride<\/em>\u00a0(BLER Press, 2017). She was highly commended in the Forward Prize 2017 for best single poem and is author of Flood (Cultured Llama 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Honey Shot \u00a0 Samson knows the sound of lies and scissors, clings to some muscle he used to have. Jumping through hoops to stay alive. You don\u2019t need to impress me. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Snip, slash in a dirty flat, he gathers bottles, cans, vials, he couldn\u2019t let go, and I say, aren\u2019t 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":[141,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prizes-and-awards","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187","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=17187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17187\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSamson knows the sound of lies
\nand scissors, clings to some muscle he used
\nto have. Jumping through hoops
\nto stay alive. You don\u2019t need to impress me. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n
\nbottles, cans, vials, he couldn\u2019t let go,
\nand I say, aren\u2019t you pleased to see me <\/em>
\nagain? <\/em>And What was she like? <\/em>And how <\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\ncould you love her so much when she cut<\/em>
\nyou like that? <\/em>He wants me to slice
\noff his head. I tell him it will grow back,
\nas he sings fragments remind me,<\/p>\n
\nout of the strong comes something sweet<\/em>.
\nLet out he\u2019d sucked something unclean,
\nrubs blind eyes, waves his hands, says<\/p>\n
\nme he loved me, only the girl who blinded
\nhim, gave him the honey, cut his hair,
\ntook his money. He says he can\u2019t see me.<\/p>\n