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The Incredible Zapriskie Ponders His Retirement Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n Dawn returns with half-remembered dreams \u2018Check your flies\u2019 At lunchtime he\u2019ll perform again and every now and then he\u2019ll check And sometimes he\u2019ll glimpse a shopper\u2019s face <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Incredible Zapriskie Ponders His Retirement Plan Dawn returns with half-remembered dreams of levitation and yet more spidered scribbles on the ceiling: \u2018Check your flies\u2019 \u2018Buy some hens\u2019 \u2018Damn the fog\u2019 and \u2018Magda was right.\u2019 At lunchtime he\u2019ll perform again outside New Look on the ground floor of the mall: card tricks […]<\/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-12061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061","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=12061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12063,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12061\/revisions\/12063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof levitation
\nand yet more spidered scribbles
\non the ceiling:<\/p>\n
\n\u2018Buy some hens\u2019
\n\u2018Damn the fog\u2019
\nand \u2018Magda was right.\u2019<\/p>\n
\noutside New Look on the ground floor
\nof the mall: card tricks for shuffling
\npensioners and reluctant doves
\nfrom a schoolgirl\u2019s scarf<\/p>\n
\nhis zip, consider poultry
\nand wonder why nothing seems
\nclear any more.<\/p>\n
\nand mumble, \u2018I didn\u2019t mean it, Magda,\u2019
\nthinking of happier days spent
\nsawing her in two.<\/p>\n
\nJonathan Pinnock<\/strong> is, among other things, the editor of Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis (www.spillingcocoa.com<\/a>). His personal website is at www.jonathanpinnock.com<\/a> and he tweets as @jonpinnock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"