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We\u2019re at the rental place at the beach. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Estabrook<\/strong> has been publishing his poetry in the small press since the 1980s. Hopefully with each passing decade the poems have become more clear and concise, succinct and precise, more appealing and \u201cuniversal.\u201d He has published over 20 collections, a recent one being Bouncy House<\/i>, edited by Larry Fagin (Green Zone Editions, 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mi Amigo We\u2019re at the rental place at the beach. 3 AM I\u2019m up reading waiting for the pain pills to kick in (back legs shoulders arms from fighting the waves and the woods) when I notice a giant spider crawling across the ceiling heading our way. Normally I capture these hairy […]<\/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-17893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893","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=17893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17962,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMi Amigo<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n3 AM I\u2019m up reading
\nwaiting for the pain pills to kick in
\n(back legs shoulders arms from fighting
\nthe waves and the woods)
\nwhen I notice a giant spider crawling
\nacross the ceiling heading our way.
\nNormally I capture
\nthese hairy guys release them outside
\nwhere they belong but too much
\nbrouhaha for this time of night
\nwould wake my exhausted wife.
\nSo I stealthily (with great stealth)
\nswat the thing down
\nwith a throw pillow but now
\nI can\u2019t find it. WTF!
\nI move the nightstand there he is!
\nClobber him into 10 pieces with my shoe.
\nMission accomplished! Now back to sleep.
\nThe Devil, who I hadn\u2019t noticed
\nhas been watching me with that stupid
\nI-just-planted-a-spider-in-your-room grin
\nexclaims \u201cWell done mi amigo\u201d
\nand poof he\u2019s gone again, bastard.<\/p>\n