{"id":11072,"date":"2022-06-21T05:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2022-06-21T05:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:28:57","slug":"the-fish-that-i-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/the-fish-that-i-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fish That I Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I lived in Weston Super Mare until I was twelve<\/p>\n

And then my father changed his job<\/p>\n

And we moved to Stoke on Trent<\/p>\n

Which saddened me as all of the sudden<\/p>\n

I had no friends left in the muddy milk sea<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Before we left I had been a member<\/p>\n

Of a marine blue fish choir red<\/p>\n

And learnt many many sea shanties<\/p>\n

Word for word fish by fish gull by gull<\/p>\n

These were my happy younger years<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Things changed when we moved to the Mid Lands<\/p>\n

And I soon turned to crime as an enforcer on the streets<\/p>\n

I have been in prison for the last eight years<\/p>\n

As I killed two men in a gangland hit and run<\/p>\n

I mentioned my choir in court but this only increased my sentence<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The sea the sea is far far away and no fish can be found nearby<\/p>\n

And I spend all my time reading about the sea and the golden gulls anointed<\/p>\n

I have another ten years to serve behind these red brick walls<\/p>\n

But I am planning to escape as I have fallen in love with my prison visitor<\/p>\n

She too used to sing in choir that comprised of Puffins Crabs and Blood Black Gulls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I lived in Weston Super Mare until I was twelve And then my father changed his job And we moved to Stoke on Trent Which saddened me as all of the sudden I had no friends left in the muddy milk sea   Before we left I had been a member Of a marine blue […]<\/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-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","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=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11076,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}