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Coupling with Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n Even so. You would be surprised, <\/em> to hear how often I watched you, <\/em> how often I was on the point of falling <\/em> in with you. I have entered many a shop,<\/em> to avoid your sight, as the carriage drove by.<\/em> Lodging as I did in Bond Street, <\/em> there was hardly a day<\/em> in which I did not catch a glimpse <\/em> of one or other of you; and nothing <\/em> but the most constant watchfulness <\/em> on my side, a most invariably prevailing,<\/em> desire to keep out of your sight<\/em> could have separated us so long.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Spiers<\/strong>\u00a0has a poem in Paper Swan\u2019s Press The Pocket Poetry Book of Crick<\/em>et and has six times been published on IS&T<\/em> now. For other news Sue tweets @spiropoetry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Words taken from Sense and Sensibility<\/em> by Jane Austen P198 (Wordsworth Editions The Complete Novels of Jane Austen)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coupling with Jane Austen Even so. You would be surprised, although perhaps you had surmised, to hear how often I watched you, sometimes I was positive you knew how often I was on the point of falling down on your bed and crawling in with you. I have entered many a shop, bought […]<\/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-17656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656","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=17656"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17662,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17656\/revisions\/17662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nalthough perhaps you had surmised,<\/p>\n
\nsometimes I was positive you knew<\/p>\n
\ndown on your bed and crawling<\/p>\n
\nbought veils, even sun-glasses at the co-op,<\/p>\n
\nI truly believed you were a good guy.<\/p>\n
\ntwo doors between faith and cheat,<\/p>\n
\nI spied your wife. The way<\/p>\n
\nof her is mockery to me, makes chimps<\/p>\n
\ncan feel the shame to which I cling<\/p>\n
\nto curb my lust and contain distress<\/p>\n
\naggravating situation: this trailing<\/p>\n
\nhas vexed me and only her right<\/p>\n
\nWhy is loving you so wrong?<\/p>\n