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Fate<\/strong><\/p>\n I step over a penny in the street Okay honey I didn\u2019t know Dad no! Bring it on you bastard! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Estabrook <\/strong>small press poet since the 1980s striving always for greater clarity and concision rendering language more succinct and precise more accessible and appealing a Sisyphean adventure for sure. Retired now writing more and working more outside just noticed two Cooper\u2019s hawks staked out in the yard or rather above it which explains the nerve-wracked chipmunks. The Poet\u2019s Curse, A Miscellany<\/em> is a recent collection (The Poetry Box, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fate I step over a penny in the street Dad you can\u2019t leave it there bring it home save it it\u2019s bad luck if you don\u2019t Okay honey I didn\u2019t know I pick it up promptly & drop it through a sewer grate Dad no! she stops and stares her hand over […]<\/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-19736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736","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=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19982,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions\/19982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDad you can\u2019t leave it there
\nbring it home save it
\nit\u2019s bad luck if you don\u2019t<\/p>\n
\nI pick it up promptly & drop it
\nthrough a sewer grate<\/p>\n
\nshe stops and stares
\nher hand over her mouth<\/p>\n
\ncome and get me
\nI yell to whoever this vindictive
\npetty penny-pinching god might be<\/p>\n