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Fishing<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the North Sea the<\/p>\n bodies are hauled in<\/p>\n hanged among the hysterical sea<\/p>\n life gasping, flashing<\/p>\n silver, gaggling & puckering<\/p>\n lips puck*pick*pup*pop \u2013<\/p>\n & it is bloody<\/p>\n cold.<\/p>\n See where a small, pink crab has made its home<\/p>\n between the cheek and molar<\/p>\n but scuttles into the adjacent cavity<\/p>\n full of coral matter in the sight<\/p>\n of a flashlight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our quotas don\u2019t give leave<\/p>\n to bring them in to shore.<\/p>\n They are thrown back<\/p>\n with the turbot and the wrasse.<\/p>\n They are happier among the loving<\/p>\n fronds of channeled wrack and salt weeds<\/p>\n than if we lugged them<\/p>\n back in, to the bawling garbage-stink<\/p>\n where they would burn<\/p>\n in red brick crematoriums<\/p>\n leaving only the smell of codfish<\/p>\n & flakes of ash<\/p>\n shaped like goldfish feed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jak Payne<\/strong> is a from Peckham in South London. He graduated from the Goldsmiths’ Creative Writing BA in 2012. He is currently finishing his Master’s degree in Modern Literature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fishing In the North Sea the bodies are hauled in hanged among the hysterical sea life gasping, flashing silver, gaggling & puckering lips puck*pick*pup*pop \u2013 & it is bloody cold. See where a small, pink crab has made its home between the cheek and molar but scuttles into the adjacent cavity […]<\/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-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","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=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}