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Your Services are No Longer Required<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019re looking for someone else\u2014<\/p>\n someone who knows how to run the<\/p>\n mower without rolling over the cord.<\/p>\n When you roll over the cord, it tends to<\/p>\n make the mower stop.\u00a0 Always<\/p>\n <\/p>\n when that happens, you\u2019ve mowed<\/p>\n half the yard.\u00a0 One half crew cut,<\/p>\n other half electrified mullet.<\/p>\n So please, do us both a favor.\u00a0 Don\u2019t<\/p>\n return next Thursday or any other day.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The mower is still in the shop, the grass<\/p>\n is out of control, my nephew came over<\/p>\n with his Lawnboy and mowed in narrow<\/p>\n lines, giving the effect of many Mohawks<\/p>\n or an abundance of bowling alleys.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He thought he was being funny.\u00a0 He\u2019s not<\/p>\n coming back either.\u00a0 Your money\u2019s in<\/p>\n the envelope, though truth be told,<\/p>\n you don\u2019t deserve it.\u00a0 It\u2019s<\/p>\n really pay to make you stay away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Karen Loeb<\/strong> lives in the American Midwest.\u00a0 Recent writing: Thema, Hanging Loose, Main Street Rag <\/em>and <\/em>elsewhere.\u00a0 <\/em>Poems forthcoming: Nerve Cowboy, Wisconsin Poets Calendar. \u00a0<\/em>Online writing in Crania, Otis Nebula, Boston Literary Magazine. <\/em>Find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your Services are No Longer Required We\u2019re looking for someone else\u2014 someone who knows how to run the mower without rolling over the cord. When you roll over the cord, it tends to make the mower stop.\u00a0 Always when that happens, you\u2019ve mowed half the yard.\u00a0 One half crew cut, […]<\/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-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","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=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6950,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/6950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}