{"id":7334,"date":"2014-09-14T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:29:24","slug":"susan-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/susan-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silly Shoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I rushed home from work for him<br \/>\nI went totally berserk for him<br \/>\nI wore silly shoes for him<br \/>\nI sat and had the blues for him<br \/>\nI laughed at all his jokes for him<br \/>\nI ignored all other blokes for him<br \/>\nI went with the flow for him<br \/>\nI stopped saying no to him<br \/>\nI opened my heart for him<br \/>\nI wrote a special part for him<br \/>\nI stopped being late for him<br \/>\nI laid awake for him<br \/>\nI went the extra mile for him<br \/>\nI wore special smiles for him<br \/>\nI stopped seeing my mates for him<br \/>\nI started baking cakes for him<br \/>\nI cleaned out my flat for him<br \/>\nI totally lost track for him<br \/>\nI danced drunk in the street for him<br \/>\nI threw up and I reached for him<br \/>\nI gave thanks and praise for him<br \/>\nI thought I\u2019d end my days with him<br \/>\nBut it wasn\u2019t really happening<br \/>\nIt was just a fling to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Evans<\/strong> is a Brighton-based Arts Therapist, Lecturer and Performance Poet, from East London, of Anglo Indian\/Irish parentage. Susan is currently developing her solo `scratch&#8217; show, <em>A bit of Oral<\/em>. <em>Silly Shoes<\/em> is published in Brighton Stanza Poets Anthology, 2013. Find her here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Susan-Evans-Performance-poet\/485340264922817\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/pages\/Susan-Evans-Performance-poet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Silly Shoes I rushed home from work for him I went totally berserk for him I wore silly shoes for him I sat and had the blues for him I laughed at all his jokes for him I ignored all other blokes for him I went with the flow for him I [&hellip;]<\/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-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","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=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7335,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}