{"id":426,"date":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:00:00","slug":"jonny-reids-jake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jonny-reids-jake\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonny Reid's 'Jake'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake<\/span>

The Jack Russell<\/span>
with a yellow pencil trapped in his jaw<\/span>
runs between our argument – we stop<\/span>
our mouths, you and I, caught by the sight of him <\/span>
as he paws, bows and scribbles on the lino<\/span>


To you both<\/span>


I just can't do this anymore<\/span>


Regards,<\/span>

Jake<\/span>



and exits the cat flap         <\/span>

flap-flap flap.<\/span>





*Jonny Reid<\/span> has recently studied for an MA in Creative Writing at The University of Manchester.  His poems have appeared in Magma, Stand, The Warwick Review, Stride, London Grip, Nthposition, The Hat<\/span> and other magazines.  He has been longlisted twice for an Eric Gregory award.<\/span>
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JakeThe Jack Russellwith a yellow pencil trapped in his jawruns between our argument – we stopour mouths, you and I, caught by the sight of him as he paws, bows and scribbles on the linoTo you bothI just can't do this anymoreRegards,Jakeand exits the cat flap         flap-flap flap.*Jonny Reid has recently studied for an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}