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White-Knuckles<\/strong><\/p>\n In the force of the fall, it\u2019s OK You can fool everyone, You can hang on to your courage You can be deceptive, You can get away with a lot flashing up on the exterior screen. once more that your corkscrewed body can deceive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lee Prosser<\/strong> currently lives in West Wales and graduated with an MA in creative writing from Swansea University in 2018. He\u00a0initially studied fine art at college but gravitated into writing and performing poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" White-Knuckles In the force of the fall, it\u2019s OK to call your screams outbursts of joy as long as they don\u2019t shrill. You can fool everyone, if you keep your body still and maintain a grip on the restraining bar. You can hang on to your courage sat next to your 12-year old […]<\/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-19039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19039","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=19039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19174,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19039\/revisions\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto call your screams outbursts of joy
\nas long as they don\u2019t shrill.<\/p>\n
\nif you keep your body still and maintain a grip
\non the restraining bar.<\/p>\n
\nsat next to your 12-year old son if you don\u2019t swear
\nin the section that flings you upside down.<\/p>\n
\nif you can hold your last meal or tears from spilling
\nas the twists and turns take their toll.<\/p>\n
\nif you quickly lure them towards the hotdogs,
\nbefore your mask of terror belies your stalwart stance<\/p>\n
\nThat photo booth revealing your fear as you leave\u2014
\nand you praying<\/p>\n