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The Snobby Woman Pretends Not to See Me<\/strong><\/p>\n and sweeps her nose to the sky <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Laurie Kolp<\/strong> poems have appeared in the 2015 Poet\u2019s Market, The Crafty Poet, Scissors & Spackle, Blue Fifth Review, Pirene\u2019s Fountain<\/em>. An avid runner and lover of nature, Laurie lives in Texas with her husband, three children and two dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Snobby Woman Pretends Not to See Me and sweeps her nose to the sky and sniffs moon dust and yoyos her eyelids like a freak show act and then looks away and I once had a doll with blinking eyes like that and her face and arms and legs were […]<\/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-8842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842","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=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand sniffs moon dust
\nand yoyos her eyelids like a freak show act
\nand then looks away
\nand I once had a doll with blinking eyes like that
\nand her face and arms and legs were porcelain
\nand I named her Suzie
\nand my grandparents kept her in the sewing room
\nand that room was a garage before they added on to the house
\nand I thought that room was haunted
\nand when I visited, I hurry! hurried in and out
\nand Suzy\u2019s chubby legs clanked together as I carried her around
\nand the silence didn\u2019t seem so bad
\nand her body was cloth with stains from my mother
\nand when my visit ended, Suzy stayed on shelf,
\nand the haunted room taunted me
\nand next summer Suzy\u2019s face was cracked
\nand her eyes didn\u2019t blink anymore
\nand I know this woman is just like all the rest of them
\nand I see fake dolls in the grocery store, snobby women like her
\nand I remember Suzie long gone, but still loved
\nand I\u2019m glad she was real<\/p>\n