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Vanity<\/strong><\/p>\n I suppose to assume that I would have did you ever see that picture? this lady <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DS Maolalai<\/strong>\u00a0has been nominated for Best of the Web and twice for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden (<\/em>Encircle Press, 2016) and Sad Havoc Among the Birds (<\/em>Turas Press, 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vanity I suppose that’s what it must be, to assume that I would have chapbooks out my ears by now. to assume that the girls who come will want to stick around a dirty apartment just because I am there. to assume that a face full of scars (I fell down in […]<\/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-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732","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=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19977,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions\/19977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat’s what it must be,<\/p>\n
\nchapbooks out my ears by now.
\nto assume that the girls who come
\nwill want to stick around a dirty apartment
\njust because I am there.
\nto assume that a face full of scars
\n(I fell down in paris)
\nwould make me seem distinguished
\ninstead of just looking
\nlike a falling down drunkard.
\nto assume that anything I say
\nis worth
\nbeing heard by anyone.<\/p>\n
\nlooking in a mirror
\nbut the face you see in the mirror
\nis hers
\nand they call it vanity
\nbut don’t understand;
\nin the picture
\nshe’s looking straight out
\nat the people
\nadmiring her ass
\nand
\nknowing it or not
\nrating themselves against it
\n“do I have it\/could I get it”. vanity;
\nwhat everyone is doing
\nif they are human
\nand god bless them
\neven when they think
\n(money to beggars, fingers through the hair)
\nthey are doing something else.<\/p>\n