\u2018Love\u2019, not \u2018Pet\u2019 (Saltney Melancholy)<\/strong><\/p>\n Cutting the engine at St Deiniol\u2019s, In the road opposite the aerodrome Opposite, another Godforsaken pub Meanwhile, cutting the engine at St Deiniol\u2019s Caught between this three-quarter tank Between my last and next coffee \u2018Love\u2019, not \u2018Pet\u2019 (Saltney Melancholy) Cutting the engine at St Deiniol\u2019s, it\u2019s 8.45 and the sun has just dragged itself out of slumber. Same place…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[468,473,365,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nit\u2019s 8.45 and the sun has just dragged
\nitself out of slumber. Same place I\u2019ve come from:
\nstomach a stone of Christmas Stilton.<\/p>\n
\nthe taxi beeps round the bus
\nwhose driver flops a fag out the window
\nbecause it\u2019s still twenty three days \u2019til pay
\nso why not start as you mean to go on?<\/p>\n
\noffers cheap J\u00e4gerbombs next door
\nto a Heddlu whose patrols will span
\nthe nameless bridge over the Dee estuary
\nwhere Beak-addicted border lads
\nwill shoot up Blacon and Garden City.<\/p>\n
\nI think about these days ahead.
\nLike Saltney, I\u2019m caught
\nbetween an English life and a Welsh.
\nBetween a past I know too well
\nand a future of the Broughton Retail Park.<\/p>\n
\nand fields carrying the floods.
\nBetween the waste removal truck
\nwith the Everton flag in its cabin
\nand the Mercedes A-Class making
\nits way to the year\u2019s first boardroom bore.<\/p>\n
\nin Gladstone\u2019s Reading Rooms
\nwhich I\u2019ll take with Louisa
\nwho\u2019ll ask about my work, who I\u2019ll tell
\nand the canteen girl will collect
\nmy mug and say \u2018love\u2019, not \u2018pet\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"