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Attempt at Self Portrait<\/strong><\/p>\n syntax puddle<\/p>\n half-hearted marathon runner with piano key mouth<\/p>\n flea the other fleas would rather not suck blood with<\/p>\n hastily customised avatar for whoever is behind my face<\/p>\n nice cold cup of sarcastic fridge magnet wisdom<\/p>\n drunk note written on phone, forgotten for five months<\/p>\n lengthy self-deprecating anecdote at a rubbish party<\/p>\n jacket you think is cool but you know other people disagree so you don\u2019t wear it, coward<\/p>\n anxious, sickly Instagram filter<\/p>\n slowly unravelling spool of HTML<\/p>\n telltale pornographic science fiction paperback left on psychiatrist\u2019s couch, certain pages folded over<\/p>\n meme you made in Photoshop when you still weren\u2019t really sure what they are<\/p>\n extensively publicised state-of-the-art spider web reveal on Spiderbite Massacre Remembrance Tuesday<\/p>\n wacky face drawn on carelessly with marker pen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stefan Mohamed<\/strong> is a poet and author based in Bristol.\u00a0 His novels Falling Leaves<\/em> and the Bitter Sixteen Trilogy<\/em> are published by Salt Publishing, and poetry collection PANIC!<\/em> is published by Burning\u00a0 Eye Books. Website is stefmo.co.uk<\/a> . Tweets: @stefmowords<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Attempt at Self Portrait syntax puddle half-hearted marathon runner with piano key mouth flea the other fleas would rather not suck blood with hastily customised avatar for whoever is behind my face nice cold cup of sarcastic fridge magnet wisdom drunk note written on phone, forgotten for five months lengthy self-deprecating anecdote […]<\/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-18608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608","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=18608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18770,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18608\/revisions\/18770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}