Stuart Miller-Osborne

My daughter and granddaughter are running across this bridge There is a terrific wind blowing down the East River It reminds me of a scene from the French movie Jules et Jim When Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner and Henri Serre Run across an anonymous bridge in Paris History always repeats itself  

The Man from Laramie Joe Graham is a very successful artist who paints out of a loft in Manhattan He is most probably the best known artist in New York at present In his work he uses only pinks and mauves as well as vivid greens and midnight blues The results are visually stunning and […]

Sinfonietta Z on Bedford Street Regina B is sitting on her balcony Smoking a joint She is writing a short story About the life and death Of her albino brother She has called the story Sinfonietta Z on Bedford Street   Willoughby Willoughby used to keep a pigeon loft On the roof of his apartment […]

The sea is a hypocrite She is a bandit who shows no mercy Even the sea birds Avoid mentioning her name When they deliver the souls Of those who die at sea to their home ports Only madmen should love the sea and her fickle ways And even they should know better     Written […]

My wife was reading a book about a Victorian clergyman named Balthazar who in his thirty-sixth year suddenly developed a passion for fishing She was sitting on our balcony overlooking the beach with the slight green book on her lap It is rather cloudy at present will it lift? Yes the cloud burns back quite […]

After the fire Only the urn remained Stained It had held the tender ashes Of a pink angel Who had been expelled From her gentle world For her coloured crimes   She had hit the ground With too much force And had been trampled to death By a startled horse     Written on a […]

Unkempt Koithko On my first day in the seminary he took the register and told us that if we were going to hang ourselves then it was better to use a strong well made rope over a metre in length He had tried it himself with a shorter less sturdy rope and had failed Unkempt […]

Donald Dog Duck ate my Porridge Donald Dog ate my Porridge I was rather pissed off with him But my duck Donald dog duck was more upset So we gave him a juicy orange And cooked him slowly   Donald Dog Duck ate my Porridge Donald Dog ate my Porridge I was rather pissed off […]

Donald Duck ate my Porridge Donald Duck ate my Porridge I was rather pissed off with him But my dog Donald dog was more upset So we gave him a juicy orange And cooked him slowly   Donald Duck ate my Porridge Donald Duck ate my Porridge I was rather pissed off with him But […]

JDS You appeared to be hiding from the world Or was the world hiding from you  🙁   Royalty Have you noticed when reading history books about royalty That they often marry before going to war  🙂   Curtains One only finds darkness behind curtains during the night This is one of God’s funniest jokes  […]