{"id":10580,"date":"2022-04-20T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2022-04-20T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:24:08","slug":"new-poem-about-dogs-and-junkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/new-poem-about-dogs-and-junkies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poem about Dogs and Junkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only dogs will sense the apocalypse<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While their drunken masters<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sleep soundly<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let the fat people extend their lives<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Untainted by the influence of canine philosophers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Graffiti found in a car park not far from the South Bank complex by the author in January 2018<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All dogs are philosophy students<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see it in their eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Graffiti added by the author on a bitterly cold January evening<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He awaits additions<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A homeless person came up to me as I walked across the car park<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Do you have any change mate?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>No but I have plenty of notes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Cunt<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I ignored the homeless junkie and wished him a powerful overdose<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Would you give me a note if I told you a joke?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Perhaps<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>My wife bless her soul<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Is the dead?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>No she fucked off a year or so ago with some flash cunt may he rot in hell<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>My wife had some cream in our bathroom cupboard<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It was cream for the treatment of thrush<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Did she have thrush?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I think so as she tasted tangy when I licked her out<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I was too tired to fuck you see<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Carry on<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Well I found this cream which noted that it would if applied properly get rid of thrush<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>And?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Well I smeared it all over our kitchen window as those little fuckers were shitting on the window on a daily basis<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Why not buy a cat?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Too expensive anyway cats do not give a fuck for you<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>They are the most independent of animals<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Well as I said I smeared it all over the window and do you know what the little fuckers still shit all over the windows next day<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Perhaps the offenders were not thrushes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>They were I would recognise those little fucks anywhere<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Is that the joke?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Thrush you see<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I get it<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Will you pay me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>For a fix<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yep<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Why do you not mug some of the filthy rich Jews when they return to their cars?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>There is not such thing as a rich Jew<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I was only using it as a figure of speech as the Jews have been persecuted throughout time<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>That is not nice<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I am part Jewish<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>That does not excuse you<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yes it does<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I bear no malice towards the Jews<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>That will be \u00a320.00<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a320.00 will most probably kill you<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>No it will not<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Well here is \u00a360.00 buy a nice fix<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It may be your last<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I watched as the homeless vagrant walked nervously away<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What would Charles Bronson have done?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Blown the fucker away<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>This country is seriously short of vigilantes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I pulled up my collar and left the car park<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">January is a bleak month<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It promises so much and delivers little<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is the philosophy of dogs<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dogs are natural philosophers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs Only dogs will sense the apocalypse While their drunken masters Sleep soundly Let the fat people extend their lives Untainted by the influence of canine philosophers Graffiti found in a car park not far from the South Bank complex by the author in January 2018 \u00a0 All dogs are philosophy students You can see 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