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The Small Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n I worry about you, girl, Hug\u00a0your mum. Spend money Kiss your dad. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gill Lambert<\/strong> is a poet and teacher from Yorkshire. She has been published in print and online and her pamphlet Uninvited Guests<\/em> was published last year by Indigo Dreams. A solo collection is forthcoming in 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Small Stuff I worry about you, girl, so don’t worry about yourself. Don’t settle for the first man who says he loves you, there’ll be others. Any dress you wear will be wonderful, that body you have will not always look like that. Hug\u00a0your mum. Spend money on yourself but save […]<\/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-18187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187","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=18187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18188,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18187\/revisions\/18188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nso don’t worry about yourself.
\nDon’t settle for the first
\nman who says he loves you,
\nthere’ll be others. Any dress
\nyou wear will be wonderful,
\nthat body you have will not
\nalways look like that.<\/p>\n
\non yourself but save some;
\nyou may not have a pension.
\nDon’t start smoking, you’ll
\nonly have to stop, don’t use
\ndrink as a prop.<\/p>\n
\nDon’t lie, steal or feel bad
\nabout breaking hearts.
\nDon’t fester or ruminate.
\nBut do buy a house
\nfor seventeen thousand
\nin 1988.<\/p>\n