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Sucker<\/strong><\/p>\n Let\u2019s buy a house – a big one – <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Karley Denniston<\/strong> was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, but now lives in West Yorkshire where she works, studies and raises her two children. She is an occasional writer and has had work published by webzines Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em> and Snakeskin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sucker Let\u2019s buy a house – a big one – big enough to hold old resentments and future fights. Let\u2019s get an old one, one in the country, the kind that has a lock on each door and a bomb shelter in the garden (so there\u2019s somewhere to run when it all […]<\/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-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","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=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18859,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions\/18859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbig enough to hold
\nold resentments and future fights.
\nLet\u2019s get an old one,
\none in the country,
\nthe kind that has a lock on each door
\nand a bomb shelter in the garden
\n(so there\u2019s somewhere to run
\nwhen it all blows up).
\nI want one with huge windows;
\nthe kind that catch people as they pass
\nand ghost their bodies.
\nThe kind that kill birds dead.
\nYou could pick up their paper mache bodies
\nand throw them in the bin
\nlike a chicken carcass,
\nthen we would shake our heads
\nat how stupid they are
\nfor letting such bloom sucker them in.<\/p>\n