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How Much Sickness Are We Talking, Exactly?<\/strong><\/p>\n For Ben<\/p>\n For we\u2019ve already had more than our fair share, And where is this health they talk of, this absence the word Doctor at the start of your name, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Susie Wild<\/strong> is a poet, writer, journalist, critic, lecturer, festival organiser and editor based in Cardiff. Her debut poetry collection Better Houses is<\/em> out now through Parthian Books. The Art of Contraception<\/em> was her first book. It was long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011 and won ‘Fiction Book of the Year’ in the Welsh Icons Awards 2010. Her Kindle novella Arrivals<\/em> was released globally through Parthian Books in May 2011. She edited the illustrated short story anthology Rarebit<\/em> for Parthian’s 21st birthday, released December 2013. Illustrated by John Abell. She is Publishing Editor at one of Wales’ Leading Indie Publishers, Parthian Books. @Soozerama<\/p>\n Note: Today is Susie and Ben\u2019s wedding day.\u00a0 Congratulations from us at IS&T!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How Much Sickness Are We Talking, Exactly? For Ben For we\u2019ve already had more than our fair share, fevered and sweaty in our whirlwind love, and are you sick of me yet, darling? Anyway as I fall over, fall further into this, as a date is set, as our goose is cooked, […]<\/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-18823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823","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=18823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19005,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions\/19005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfevered and sweaty in our whirlwind love,
\nand are you sick of me yet, darling? Anyway
\nas I fall over, fall further into this, as a date
\nis set, as our goose is cooked, love?<\/p>\n
\nof aching pains, these that I feel for the taking
\nof you, for the lack of you, here, by my side?
\nI would marry you daily, if I had enough dresses.
\nWhether you work in Aldi or add<\/p>\n
\nwhether I\u2019m driving barefoot across America, trying
\nto learn your songs. Whether we\u2019ve babies on the rug
\nand little else but this love, love. And, after all, these
\nsetbacks are simply more stories we can tell.<\/p>\n