Stuart Miller-Osborne

Ballerina at the Brandenburg Gate Red flag White flag Traffic Regulator Here we are in Berlin The Reichstag is opposite All Europe passes through here Later a school teacher Forgotten History

The coloured cousins Were within the walls I was nearby Awaiting their sponsor

You were in such a mess It was as if you had entered The Science Class Directly from your mothers womb

Would you share a memory with me What would you like A summer memory I have many But here is one I was sitting with my love On a sharp shingle ridge We were in our beach chairs Both of us were reading I was as normal reading Joan Didion Which was for some reason…

Stan Yes It is me Jane I have arrived safely Rome is so beautiful I know They say See Rome and Die My friend Clive Took that too literally Did he Yes What happened He threw himself from his hotel window How sad Stan I was very cut up about it But not as cut…

Joe may I call you Joe Yes Josephine will be okay You must be very happy Happy what is happy One of the seven dwarfs That question is wrong Why Happy who is Happy Is the correct question Happy is an abstract word Is abstract a happy word You cannot touch it You cannot eat…

I am sleeping with my assassin Jane Revolver is her name In a few hours time She will terminate The miserable life Of a corrupt politician I have agreed to shelter her In this bed when she returns

Do you remember that night in Paris That single night that we spent together Before you left for the war We agreed not to write You agreed not to die I was the girl You were the soldier Although you revealed your name I wrote it on a cigarette packet Soon after we parted At…

Words are now spent Fires are about to overwhelm us A philosopher in his summer shorts Is staring at me with a discreet passion I find this very comforting

I was executed on a Tuesday For an unspecified crime As I sat in the chair You stood in front of me And removed your vest I was asked which I admired more Your breasts of your underarm hair I chose the latter for the comfort It brought me on this my last day You…