Talking to you
\nis like forcing myself
\nthrough a very small hole in a barbed wire fence<\/p>\n
with the small brained certainty
\nthat the field on the other side is sweeter<\/p>\n
Halfway through and no way back
\nA final tearing heave is the only way<\/p>\n
And then to realise I\u2019ve left behind
\nstrings of soft fleece hooked there in the wind,
\nand there are
\ncorresponding scars
\non my naked belly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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