Whilst travelling onboard a steam train on a preserved railway<\/p>\n
I saw a large dog sitting in the corridor of the carriage<\/p>\n
It occurred to me that it was admiring the wood panelling<\/p>\n
But I was mistaken as it was in despair at the state of the world<\/p>\n
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We shall be better prepared for the future\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n If we see how terrible how doomed the present is\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I asked the dog why it was quoting Iris Murdoch<\/p>\n It did not answer immediately<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In fact this dog never spoke to me again<\/p>\n As I was imagining its very presence<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was not on a train<\/p>\n But sitting in sad cafe<\/p>\n With a friendly coffee<\/p>\n Thinking about the world<\/p>\n Which often disgusted me<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From my table I could see Jane<\/p>\n On the opposite side of the street<\/p>\n She was wearing a summer dress<\/p>\n Yellow and Green Red and Blue<\/p>\n How beautiful she was in the summer light<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world and its idiots<\/p>\n No longer concerned me<\/p>\n Beauty was everything<\/p>\n The future would care for itself<\/p>\n As for the present<\/p>\n I was past really really caring<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Outlaw<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whilst travelling onboard a steam train on a preserved railway I saw a large dog sitting in the corridor of the carriage It occurred to me that it was admiring the wood panelling But I was mistaken as it was in despair at the state of the world We shall be better prepared for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}