{"id":15875,"date":"2018-03-22T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15875"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:04:07","slug":"craig-dobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/craig-dobson\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Dobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Art of Tipping<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Eastern European concierge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">can\u2019t hide his billionaire-stare\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">disappointment as the revolving<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">doors deliver me: small change<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">at the ready should my cheap case<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">require his studied servility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A dance of mauled politesse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">gets us into the lift\u2019s awkwardness \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Freed from its stifling proximity,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">we\u2019re ignored by chambermaids lugging<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">sheets along the featureless corridors<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">of lower floors, far beneath the suites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He wheels my case in, hands me<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">the key with patronizing expectancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yes, thank you, yes\u2026<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\"> I mumble,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">my hand extended too soon,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">something more than insubstantial<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">in its clammy, proffered pound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"m_23621636102335551x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Craig Dobson&#8217;<\/strong>s had <span lang=\"EN-US\">poems in <em>The London Magazine, North, Rialto, Agenda, Stand, New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Under the Radar, Orbis, Butcher\u2019s Dog, Interpreter\u2019s House, Poetry Salzburg Review, Frogmore Papers, Boscombe Revolution and Bad Kid Catullus pamphlets<\/em> and<em> Poetry Daily website.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Art of Tipping \u00a0\u00a0 The Eastern European concierge can\u2019t hide his billionaire-stare\u2019s disappointment as the revolving doors deliver me: small change at the ready should my cheap case require his studied servility. \u00a0 A dance of mauled politesse gets us into the lift\u2019s awkwardness \u2013 Freed from its stifling proximity, we\u2019re [&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-15875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875","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=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16124,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions\/16124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}