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No Atticus Finch<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019re making a box out of a pen, Pandora. I am you. You am I.<\/p>\n What are you playing at, scatterbrain? Dusty cogs are struggling And if he wrote poetry, you would <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sam Langworth<\/strong> studies Creative Writing at Birkbeck University, where he has received invaluable teaching and guidance from Liane Strauss and Anthony Joseph. He writes most of his poems in his downstairs bathroom (he calls it his ‘office’).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No Atticus Finch You\u2019re making a box out of a pen, Pandora. I unleash all your suppressed clich\u00e9s, and twist words uncontrollably. I am you. You am I. What are you playing at, scatterbrain? You\u2019re not extraordinary. You\u2019re another- day-another-dollar ordinary. Yet the notes in your wallet are wrong: standard Post-its, complicated […]<\/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-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","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=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI unleash all your suppressed clich\u00e9s,
\nand twist words uncontrollably.<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019re not extraordinary. You\u2019re another-
\nday-another-dollar ordinary.
\nYet the notes in your wallet are wrong: standard
\nPost-its, complicated
\nby chicken scratches of the self.
\nExternal is the opposite of internal.
\nWhere\u2019s your insightfulness?<\/p>\n
\nfor a consolation.
\nDid I hear you right? At least
\nyou\u2019re a good\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dad,
\na bit like Atticus Finch? His
\nchildren admire him.
\nGranted, you both work in a court,
\nbut he defends the righteous;
\nyou are rightly condemned
\nto handle the correspondence.<\/p>\n
\nwish your hands were cut off.<\/p>\n