{"id":8172,"date":"2015-02-20T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2015-01-26T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:04:09","slug":"stephanie-arsoska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stephanie-arsoska\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Arsoska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tinkering Among the Machines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what kind of game<br \/>\nyou thought you were playing<br \/>\nwith all those bodies. Just another<\/p>\n<p>part of a machine to be tinkered<br \/>\nwith, moved around,\u00a0 broken<br \/>\nand not repaired. What a scrapyard<\/p>\n<p>of ghosts you made,<br \/>\nwhat a massacre of dignity.<br \/>\nAll those girls marked for life,<\/p>\n<p>just because you felt like it<br \/>\nAll those snapped apart souls<br \/>\ntrying not to spill their damage<\/p>\n<p>across the years ahead.\u00a0 And<br \/>\nsomewhere you, in a bed,<br \/>\nwith just another thing<\/p>\n<p>you won\u2019t hesitate to break.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie Arsoska<\/strong> lives in\u00a0 Kirriemuir, Scotland.\u00a0 Her work been published by The Emma Press, Prole, Iron Press, Mother\u2019s Milk Books and Magma.\u00a0 This is her blog<a href=\"http:\/\/stephaniearsoska.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/stephaniearsoska.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Tinkering Among the Machines I wonder what kind of game you thought you were playing with all those bodies. Just another part of a machine to be tinkered with, moved around,\u00a0 broken and not repaired. What a scrapyard of ghosts you made, what a massacre of dignity. All those girls marked for life, [&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-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","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=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}