{"id":20700,"date":"2019-12-20T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:58:43","slug":"matt-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matt-pitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rain Dog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, the pool table (cue ball<br \/>\nchalk, two stripes) posed for Paul Cezanne.<br \/>\nThe drinkers who were plunged in conversation<br \/>\nseemed suddenly and simultaneously<br \/>\nto lose their train of thought.<br \/>\nI fixed my eyes on the wall above the bar<br \/>\nwhere they were screening a montage<br \/>\nof your finest moments.<br \/>\nA year passed.<br \/>\nTom Waits walked in and put a snakeskin<br \/>\nboot through the jukebox.<br \/>\nHe signalled the barman.<br \/>\nHe sat down beside me and said<br \/>\nSon, I\u2019ve ordered you a bourbon. Lean<br \/>\nin and I\u2019ll tell you how to win her back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Pitt<\/strong> is a poet and screenwriter. He has previously published in <em>Acumen, Ambit, London Magazine <\/em>and<em> Prole.<\/em> His debut feature film, <em>Greyhawk<\/em>, was shortlisted for the Michael Powell Award at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain Dog Afterwards, the pool table (cue ball chalk, two stripes) posed for Paul Cezanne. The drinkers who were plunged in conversation seemed suddenly and simultaneously to lose their train of thought. I fixed my eyes on the wall above the bar where they were screening a montage of your finest moments. A year passed. [&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-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","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=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24193,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}