Stuart Miller-Osborne

I would like to talk about everything With at least one person I have finally chosen you After a great deal of thought

Louise and I booked a double room On the top floor of the Hotel Splendid When we arrived we found The hotel floating in the clouds When I enquired of the reason I was told that it was a celebration As all of the towns shops Had been painted orange

Was called up for army But refused to enlist There was a warrant issued For his immediate arrest Before he was captured He wounded three cops But was not sent to jail As he was unsure Of the identity of his enemies Juliet of the Mists

Whenever I do horrible things I create a silence Which I do not understand I hurt people for no reason You resemble a primate I said to a ticket collector on the train The police were called but I escaped That is one of the advantages Of my so called intelligence On a more serious […]

After the accident my compensation enabled me To purchase a specially adapted sea facing apartment From the terrace I watch as people pass Some smile some stop to chat Hello Cora how are you Well I trust The weather has been so nice I am so jealous of you I smile but rarely answer She […]

You are just ahead of the hidden tennis courts A street light has banished the immediate night Yet there is a vulnerability in your movement As if something terrible is lurking within the fog

I stabbed an Arab to death in 1958 For insulting my younger sister I buried him with the help of two friends In the area near the new road construction As far as I know his bones are still there My sister now runs a large cosmetic company Whilst I am a moderately successful artist […]

My opponents today are the wood nymphs I am quietly confident that I will win all my games Tomorrow I will be playing the three pianos They have never played chess before So I can only guess at their standard I then have three rest days on your southern beaches Before the second third and […]

I visited a castle recently In the South of England Whilst there I purchased a book From a dusty room near a terrace That overlooked the sea Collected Poems Volume II 1917 – 1922 John Drinkwater There was a dedication inside Not from the poet But from Eva to Harold Xmas 1923 This book I […]

We were (we we re) travelling to paradise In an observation car Which had been blind since birth An angel was sitting opposite us She was not wearing underwear (do angels wear underwear – what are the mules) And travelling on an upgraded green ticket Which was available only to golden angels (I knew that […]