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Touching Poem<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are being manipulated.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all right because I know exactly<\/p>\n what I\u2018m doing. I\u2019ve done this before.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Manipulation\u2019s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n It\u2019s just handling which is simply<\/p>\n another word for touching. Sort of.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Touching can sometimes lead to holding.<\/p>\n I\u2019m holding you now. Can\u2019t you feel me?<\/p>\n I have your attention. Just stay still.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We wouldn\u2019t want me to slip, would we?<\/p>\n Human psyches are such fragile things.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apart from poetry Jim Murdoch<\/strong>\u2019s also written essays, novels, plays, songs and short stories. His latest book is a collection of short fiction entitled Making Sense<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 You can find out more about him on his blog The Truth About Lies Touching Poem You are being manipulated. It\u2019s all right because I know exactly what I\u2018m doing. I\u2019ve done this before. Manipulation\u2019s not a bad thing. It\u2019s just handling which is simply another word for touching. Sort of. Touching can sometimes lead to holding. I\u2019m holding you now. Can\u2019t you […]<\/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-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","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=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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