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Unfollowing<\/strong><\/p>\n It was fine when I started; Then folk followed me, out of politeness, But some of the followed Some advertised \u2013 some flooded with RTs, Some were just banal, Tentatively, I unfollowed, so it happened again, and again. unfinal, unjudging, unguilty, Some day, elsewhere, I\u2019ll find Colin Will<\/strong> is a poet and publisher living in Dunbar. He has had six collections published, the latest being The Propriety of Weeding<\/em> <\/a>(Red Squirrel, 2012).\u00a0 This is his website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfollowing It was fine when I started; follow friends, follow family. Then folk followed me, and I\u2019d follow them out of politeness, not knowing any better. But some of the followed became irksome, boring. Some advertised \u2013 self or products; some flooded with RTs, stupid tunes, crap vids. Some were just banal, offensive, […]<\/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-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfollow friends, follow family.<\/p>\n
\nand I\u2019d follow them<\/p>\n
\nnot knowing any better.<\/p>\n
\nbecame irksome, boring.<\/p>\n
\nself or products;<\/p>\n
\nstupid tunes, crap vids.<\/p>\n
\noffensive, insane.<\/p>\n
\nand nothing bad happened,<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s light-weight, effortless,<\/p>\n
\nunpainful.<\/p>\n
\nthe courage to unfriend.<\/p>\n