{"id":59,"date":"2012-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:00:00","slug":"donal-mahoney-proposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/donal-mahoney-proposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Donal Mahoney proposes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cats At Their Bowls Lapping<\/span>
 <\/span>
This time there\u2019s a postscript:<\/span>
\u201cIf ever I cook dinner for you,<\/span>
it will be Coquilles St. Jacques<\/span>
and Jefferson Davis Pie.\u201d<\/span>
 <\/span>
Imagine Angela,<\/span>
after all these years,<\/span>
rising and gliding<\/span>
to check on my pie,<\/span>
 <\/span>
wouldn\u2019t that be something?<\/span>
Angela, come to Chicago,<\/span>
and bring all of your cats.<\/span>
I\u2019ll watch those cats<\/span>
 <\/span>
in your lap napping,<\/span>
you in my lap napping,<\/span>
the cats at their bowls lapping,<\/span>
and I in my chair laughing.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Angela, bring all of your cats<\/span>
and come to Chicago<\/span>
to make Coquilles St. Jacques<\/span>
and Jefferson Davis Pie.<\/span>

 <\/span>
*Donal Mahoney<\/a><\/span> has had work published on Ink Sweat and Tears<\/span> and other publications in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. <\/span>




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Cats At Their Bowls Lapping This time there\u2019s a postscript:\u201cIf ever I cook dinner for you,it will be Coquilles St. Jacquesand Jefferson Davis Pie.\u201d Imagine Angela,after all these years,rising and glidingto check on my pie, wouldn\u2019t that be something?Angela, come to Chicago,and bring all of your cats.I\u2019ll watch those cats in your lap napping,you in my lap napping,the cats […]<\/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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}