Stuart Miller-Osborne

If you fall in love with a fictional character In a book They will never die

My dad is a Marxist intellectual Anna Really You do not seem that impressed I am not Why Because there is no such thing as a Marxist intellectual I disagree Anna Marxism has never been proved to work My dad is an intellectual I am not disputing that But as an intellectual he must see […]

In 1944 my father who was an American GI watched as the volcano swallowed the railway for the last time He told me about this when I was old enough to understand the meaning of his interesting story In 1984 I travelled in the chairlift for the last time before it too was closed because […]

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I watch you creep silently across the wooden floor As not to wake me from my other world You open the buttercup curtains And watch the sun slowly rise Above the gas towers and the distant hills How pretty your bottom is in the young light I can hear the blind paperboy delivering our newspaper […]

I met you on the Vesuvius Railway Shortly before its wartime destruction We both wanted to travel into the core And experience its other worlds But there was a notice hidden Beneath a seat in the carriage Which read in a slow beat Love is all you have My friends Love is all you have

I can often be found Reading Whitman’s Leaves of Grass It is a hobby of mine And I frequently read his poems Whilst sitting quietly In underground stations Designed by Charles Holden  

Whilst visiting a cathedral town I met Monika once again in a bookshop We had not seen each other for many years I thought her older but still beautiful Yet I did not know what she thought of me That was until she recorded my cold likeness Against the backdrop on an orange and white […]

My doctor removed my bandages in the middle of the night And told me to look out of the window and report what was visible I saw nothing and supposed that I was still blind which saddened me But after an hour or so I saw an orange glow low on the grey horizon This […]

I am recovering from an eye operation and am resting in a darkened room Although improving my sight will take a while to return A kind friend has installed a music centre in this space And I often listen to the classics plus some popular music But of late I have heard screams terrible screams […]