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The Hard Way<\/strong><\/p>\n Put pebbles in your shoes before you start.<\/p>\n Forswear maps, a compass\u2014<\/p>\n north and south are meaningless<\/p>\n since you have trouble with your left and right.<\/p>\n Try walking backwards for a while.<\/p>\n Each stumble and sprain adds up;<\/p>\n just don\u2019t kid yourself it\u2019s all good grist.<\/p>\n Some skills are necessary.<\/p>\n Silence and exile came easy,<\/p>\n but I never got the knack of cunning.<\/p>\n Lastly, be warned\u2014<\/p>\n once real xanax online pharmacy<\/a> you\u2019ve set out<\/p>\n there\u2019s no arriving<\/p>\n and no way back.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hilaire<\/strong> is a Melbourne-born, London-based writer. Triptych Poets: Issue One<\/em> (Blemish Books, Canberra) featured a selection of her poems. Her novel Hearts on Ice<\/em> <\/a>was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2000. For more, see: http:\/\/hilaireinlondon.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Hard Way Put pebbles in your shoes before you start. Forswear maps, a compass\u2014 north and south are meaningless since you have trouble with your left and right. Try walking backwards for a while. Each stumble and sprain adds up; just don\u2019t kid yourself it\u2019s all good grist. Some skills are […]<\/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-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","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=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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