Stuart Miller-Osborne

One day I will find the most evil of words

If you wear a mask for long enough Then it becomes your actual face

It is almost sparse With little or no Decoration Fading birds Perch on Fading branches Everything is in Decline Colourful petals Once beautiful Are now dour And without Reflection This year Has now Sadly died

You will be fully investigated From the minute you leave office Prime Minister That is if you have not been strung up beforehand Lelia was sitting in front of the television She was smiling broadly as she often did Shall I buy the rope or will you do so We already have some under the […]

I have just stabbed A very important politician In his heart with a kitchen knife As he toured my school I had expected to be arrested But I was left totally alone And was given a bunch a red roses By his splendid second daughter

In my last dream A politician lied to me I hate being lied to Especially by politicians So I purchased a barn And a length of rope And hung myself From a beam

Barnes Common Today you find me on Barnes Common The weather although mild is changing As cooler winds begin to dominate I am glad that I am wearing my cream sweater Henry Fielding once lived in Milbourne House On this lovely common I wonder who lives there now As I am heading towards the railway […]

Although it has long closed There used to be an RAF base On the edge of my village Its actual name was RAF Eddington But all knew it as RAF Pink Rose On account of the number of rose bushes That could be found around the base And then mysteriously early in the war All […]

This should be a sad tale But my account is far from that When I was a child I lived in France With my two cousins Guy and Anne We all lived on a farm near Tours Anne was nicknamed Ânesse Due to her equine features And general clumsiness She was the sweeter of my […]

There had been a mixture of murders On the island which was not that unusual As people were frequently murdered For reasons secret and ultimately unclear I saw them often in my long fever dreams