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WP02 TLN<\/strong><\/p>\n it feels rather strange to say that I and yet\u2014it hurts, somehow, to say goodbye to sign the papers, walk away. I stroke <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawrence Wilson<\/strong> grew up near Chicago, Illinois, and has degrees in drama,\u00a0education and interdisciplinary art. He emigrated to the UK in 2005. He sings and acts professionally and has exhibited his pottery, sculpture, installations, prints, photography and artist\u2019s books in the UK and the USA and online. His fiction, poetry, essays and reviews have appeared in\u00a0Albedo One, Agenda, Three Drops in the Cauldron,\u00a0Paper Swans Press\u00a0(Best of British, The Poetry of Roses, The Pocket Poetry Book of Marriage, The Pocket Poetry Book of Cricket\u00a0and\u00a0The Darker Side of Love),\u00a0Poet\u2019s Cove, Art and Academe, The Prairie Light Review, The Art of Monhegan Island,\u00a0<\/em>on Salon.com, Monhegan.com<\/em> and in other journals and collections.\u00a0\u00a0 His first collection,\u00a0The April Poems<\/em>,was published in 2016, and\u00a0Another April<\/em>\u00a0in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WP02 TLN it feels rather strange to say that I no longer have a car. Farewell to Olaf ancient Polo, seventeen and not in best of health. To fix the oil leak repair speedometer, align the wheels would cost a great deal more than he was worth and yet\u2014it hurts, somehow, to […]<\/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-18612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612","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=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18862,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions\/18862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nno longer have a car. Farewell to Olaf
\nancient Polo, seventeen and not
\nin best of health. To fix the oil leak
\nrepair speedometer, align the wheels
\nwould cost a great deal more than he was worth<\/p>\n
\nto such a faithful friend. So battered, slow
\nup hills, and petrol-greedy, running hot
\nin summer, cold in winter\u2026 How to speak
\nof countless trips to work and back? I feel
\nashamed, a bit\u2014I sold him cheap. It hurts<\/p>\n
\nthe wing mirror, leave him with the tattooed bloke.<\/p>\n