Stuart Miller-Osborne

One can be a poet Or even a philosopher But one can never be a failure As how do you measure failure As it has no beginning No middle and no end     Outlaw  

I am wearing a flame red dress today To celebrate the extreme temperatures I love your crisp white cotton shirt And your cool navy blue chinos     China Blue

Blush clouds hang in the early morning sky These are the same remembered evening clouds The air is already warm as travels from room to room   We are both standing naked in front of full length mirrors And are photographing ourselves in the half light of the dawn I have received yours and now […]

Anna where have you been Outlaw’s house Why Because I wanted to read his diary I did not know that he kept one Neither did I until I found it Is there much in it Not really He keeps a record of the miles he has walked Is he a keen walker No He just […]

Peter Petra and Jane Were hunting butterflies In Central Folkestone They did this once a year On the eleventh day of July They spent the rest of their year Sketching the unusual bus station Using a variety of coloured pencils

As Jane and I walked away from Folkestone Bus Station A girl carrying a white butterfly net crossed our path   It was a strange thing to be carrying in the centre of this coastal town As not many butterflies are found at or near to the pleasant bus station   I thought it to […]

Sir As we live quite close to The Zetland Arms in Kingsdown we consider it our local if such an animal exists. However we did notice a couple of errors on page six of the What’s On supplement in this week’s paper. Firstly Kingsdown is nearer to Walmer than it is to Deal by a good mile and […]

I am a lazy fellow who spends much of his time Near his own swimming pool Or the swimming pools of his many friends It is an almost dreamlike existence Swimming and sunbathing But also enjoying the bare breasts of the women present   And here it ends for me as I am now beginning […]

On the 13th of July a renegade seagull swooped and stole a recently purchased sandwich from an unfortunate traveller at Ramsgate Railway Station It was chased along the platform by this man until it settled on the tracks and then proceeded to violently tear open the fragile packaging Shortly afterwards the London train arrived at […]

David was a polite man Who lived in Margate With his parents He had two friends Polly and Said   He was sleeping With Polly but not with Said Which was quite normal As Said was a red parrot Whereas Polly’s feathers were blue