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Wheel<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.<\/p>\n I watch another sci-film. 2.<\/p>\n We are all the same. 3.<\/p>\n It is estimated 132,000,000 people So much is inaccessible. I am thankful 4.<\/p>\n Stand up and be counted. Stand up I cannot stand. I do not understand.<\/p>\n 5.<\/p>\n Wheelchair user is not an addiction. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen\u00a0Lightbown<\/strong>\u00a0is a Bristol based, Blackburn born poet. He writes extensively but not exclusively about life as a wheelchair user. In 2019 his first poetry collection, Only Air<\/em>, was published by Burning Eye Books and his website is www.stephenlightbown.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wheel 1. I watch another sci-film. Deep space travel is a thing. The wheelchairs still look like they were bought in 1982. 2. We are all the same. The greatest lie ever sold. It is funny how different being different can be. 3. It is estimated 132,000,000 people world-wide need a wheelchair, […]<\/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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945","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=18945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19058,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18945\/revisions\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDeep space travel is a thing.
\nThe wheelchairs still look like
\nthey were bought in 1982.<\/p>\n
\nThe greatest lie ever sold.
\nIt is funny how different being different
\ncan be.<\/p>\n
\nworld-wide need a wheelchair,
\nbut over 1,000,000 lack funds
\nto buy one.<\/p>\n
\nI have access
\nto the one thing I need.<\/p>\n
\nfor your rights. Stand with me. So many
\nbystanders. Double standards. Outstanding
\ndear boy. Standoff. Standout. Standby.<\/p>\n
\nA drug I can live without.
\nIt is all I know.<\/p>\n