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The ego is never clean<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Darren Millard<\/strong> is an English graduate with too much time on his hands. He’s been published by Cadaverine<\/em>, the Delinquent<\/em> and the Journal<\/em>. He lives in Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ego is never clean Today isn’t gross with worry and the sky’s wide open tarp is thrown over precisely. Then I climbed back inside myself and thought: I really am what people think, and on thinking this licked my smile shut, patting my boring old dog’s silver-gummed gob. She is just like me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","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=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>
\nToday isn’t gross
\nwith worry and the sky’s
\nwide open tarp
\nis thrown over precisely.
\nThen I climbed back inside
\nmyself and thought:
\nI really am what people think<\/em>,
\nand on thinking this licked
\nmy smile shut,
\npatting my boring old dog’s
\nsilver-gummed gob.
\nShe is just like me.<\/p>\n