{"id":17134,"date":"2018-09-05T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:33","slug":"17134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/17134\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Cates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innuendo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>steaming beef\u2014<br \/>\nhidden in a country song<br \/>\nlady&#8217;s patootie<\/p>\n<p>The songwriter didn&#8217;t know how best to juxtapose the image and so chose innuendo, stars and asterisks, patootie metaphors, shimmering beneath the disco ball.<\/p>\n<p>The singer chuckles out the tune he thinks only whores can translate.\u00a0 But the Ph.D. on vacation is no analphabetic.\u00a0 She\u2019s fine with the lady&#8217;s patootie, has one herself, and the Planned Parenthood website mentions back door porking.\u00a0 Perhaps she&#8217;ll write a poem<\/p>\n<p>about it for women&#8217;s history month.\u00a0 She sips her sex on the beach, head ducked . . . or perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>The red-faced ranch hand tastes the tobacco smoke and peanuts.\u00a0 His upside-down cowboy hat brims with twang as the beef steams, and the Bud fizzes, and the dancers twirl, and the black and white tiles blur, multiple angles converging as all succumb to the music theory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Anna Cates<\/strong> is a graduate of Indiana State University (M.A. English and Ph.D. Curriculum &amp; Instruction\/English) and National University (M.F.A. Creative Writing).\u00a0 Her first collections of poetry and fiction, <i>The Meaning of Life<\/i> and <i>The Frog King<\/i>, were published by Cyberwit.net, and her second poetry collection, <i>The Darkroom<\/i>, by Prolific Press.\u00a0 She lives in Ohio with her two beautiful kitties and teaches education and English online, including graduate courses in creative writing. \u00a0Links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A.-Cates\/e\/B006TGBCT2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/A.-Cates\/e\/B006TGBCT2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532865234122000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGlVqzMzF3nyCz_TeHk5sUHpJPssQ\">www.amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/livinghaikuanthology.com\/poet-portfolios\/290-c-poets\/anna-cates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/livinghaikuanthology.com\/poet-portfolios\/290-c-poets\/anna-cates.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532865234123000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEN3h6n3GtSOLn_I91X_s8SAqY8BA\">livinghaikuanthology.<wbr \/>com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Innuendo steaming beef\u2014 hidden in a country song lady&#8217;s patootie The songwriter didn&#8217;t know how best to juxtapose the image and so chose innuendo, stars and asterisks, patootie metaphors, shimmering beneath the disco ball. The singer chuckles out the tune he thinks only whores can translate.\u00a0 But the Ph.D. on vacation is [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","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=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17136,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions\/17136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}