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Being Cat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n First of all, you can\u2019t think clearly:<\/p>\n illogic the permanent eclipse of your dark mind;<\/p>\n cause and effect as distantly unconnected<\/p>\n as, say, Coventry and Calvary.<\/p>\n In your field there are no Venn diagrams,<\/p>\n and if all men are mortal, and Plato<\/p>\n is a man, nothing is entailed<\/p>\n or whatever is, is so only to be chased,<\/p>\n caught and crunched without abstraction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next, and relatedly, you eschew grammar:<\/p>\n neither verb nor noun, tense or person,<\/p>\n definite or indefinite article, let alone<\/p>\n bound anaphora or clause, has any purchase.<\/p>\n You spring beyond the fence of sentences<\/p>\n so the cutting edge of your vocalisations<\/p>\n shows me how the world you live in<\/p>\n is not mine, or yours; your only possessives<\/p>\n marked with a hiss and an arch.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And to conclude, you kill everywhere<\/p>\n and everything, and pass with a clean heart<\/p>\n as if you were to wade through a sea of blood<\/p>\n and walk out purer than the Christ.<\/p>\n Having no soul makes you weightless:<\/p>\n it is not just that History has not happened,<\/p>\n but that you as an \u2018I\u2019 <\/em>have not happened,<\/p>\n and that naked fact, if nothing else,<\/p>\n gives to me, where I sit unreflected in your eyes,<\/p>\n pause and catalyst for thought.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Terry Jones<\/strong>‘ poems have appeared in a range of magazines, including The New Statesman, Poetry Review, Agenda, Ambit, Magma, Iota, Envoi, The London Magazine and others. \u00a0In 2011 he took 1st prize in the Bridport poetry competition. \u00a0Poetry Salzburg published his first short collection, Furious Resonance <\/a>in 2011.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being Cat First of all, you can\u2019t think clearly: illogic the permanent eclipse of your dark mind; cause and effect as distantly unconnected as, say, Coventry and Calvary. In your field there are no Venn diagrams, and if all men are mortal, and Plato is a man, nothing is entailed or whatever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","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=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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