{"id":637,"date":"2012-03-04T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:41:55","slug":"sitting-in-a-cafe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=637","title":{"rendered":"Sitting in a Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sitting in a Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 on my own in Skibbbereen<br \/>\nWatching all the people come and go.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 drinking creamy cappuccino<br \/>\nListening to the conversation flow.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a little group of schoolgirls<br \/>\nwith surreptitious cigarettes,<br \/>\nSelf-conscious and oblivious and cool.<br \/>\nLife, when you are fifteen, is as serious as it gets,<br \/>\nwith videos and clothes and boys and school.<\/p>\n<p>Two women, heads a-huddle, confidential tete a tete,<br \/>\nlacerating reputations at a stroke<br \/>\nAnd the cream and gooey gateaux lie forgotten on the plate<br \/>\nas the sotto voce verdict is invoked.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 on my own in Skibbbereen<br \/>\nWatching all the people come and go.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 drinking creamy cappuccino<br \/>\nListening to the conversation flow.<\/p>\n<p>A young woman blessed &#8211; or is it cursed? &#8211; with beauty in excess<br \/>\nlike a fairy tale princess upon a throne,<br \/>\nAnd if, in our World, good looks and money mean success,<br \/>\nWell, I wonder why she\u2019s sitting all alone?<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s an old man in the corner, cap pushed back upon his head,<br \/>\nintent on his feed of spuds and pork.<br \/>\nAnd he\u2019s thinking of the dealing and that Friesian calf be bred<br \/>\nAnd his working hands dwarf his knife and fork.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 on my own in Skibbbereen<br \/>\nWatching all the people come and go.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 drinking creamy cappuccino<br \/>\nListening to the conversation flow.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a sprawl of gangly schoolboys in raucous banter at the back,<br \/>\nheavy innuendo through their talk:<br \/>\nArrogance and innocence, all issues white or black<br \/>\nAnd all eyes glued to the way the waitress walks!<\/p>\n<p>But who\u2019s that nosy fecker at the table on his own?<br \/>\nThe one who is so busy with his pen?<br \/>\nFor all his observation, he\u2019s just sitting there alone:<br \/>\nIt seems he\u2019s on the outside, looking in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting in a Caf\u00e9 Well, I\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 on my own in Skibbbereen Watching all the people come and go. I\u2019m sitting in a caf\u00e9 drinking creamy cappuccino Listening to the conversation flow. There\u2019s a little group of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":558,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-ah","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}