It was the day of my flu jab<\/p>\n
20212 on the dot next to the sea<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Would I like a pneumonia vaccine<\/p>\n
Yes<\/p>\n
What are the side effects<\/p>\n
Irritability and fussiness<\/p>\n
I would not notice these\/neither would you<\/p>\n
Book it in a few days\/or come back next week<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the rest of the day<\/p>\n
People bumped into me<\/p>\n
Blind incompetent people<\/p>\n
Hit my aching arm<\/p>\n
On this day of all days<\/p>\n
Today I hated the world<\/p>\n
After loving it yesterday<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I purchased a slim volume<\/p>\n
Of Paul Verlaine’s poetry<\/p>\n
It was published by the<\/p>\n
Peter Pauper Press in 1961<\/p>\n
The book had an attractive dust jacket<\/p>\n
An erratic candy stripe<\/p>\n
Pink White and Green<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I imagined it in a Hitchcock film<\/p>\n
Being read with menace<\/p>\n
By the bad guy<\/p>\n
Supremely intelligent<\/p>\n
And a master of languages<\/p>\n
But a psychopath all the same<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A beautiful Boucher model she\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n But without powder in her hair\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Gloriously blond her witching air\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Tempts all men to debauchery\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I looked at the Saturday shoppers<\/p>\n The bland Saturday shoppers<\/p>\n The bleak Saturday shoppers<\/p>\n But Kim Novak was nowhere to be seen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The artist who I admired once said<\/p>\n Trop verte et mal \u00e9clair\u00e9e<\/em><\/p>\n Yet I disagreed with him<\/p>\n As I loved the white coastal light<\/p>\n I thought it to be the equivalent of Venice<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am about an hour away<\/p>\n From my Strawberry Dreams<\/p>\n Sometimes they are vacant<\/p>\n And at other times full<\/p>\n I think I shall dream<\/p>\n Of being a courtier tonight<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I will not watch the journey of the moon<\/p>\n As I normally do and will blame<\/p>\n The high level low clouds<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My arm will not ache tomorrow as it does not really ache now<\/p>\n I have always preferred an imagined pain to the real thing<\/p>\n This will help my waking mood as I stroll along the promenade<\/p>\n Towards the deckchairs red blue white and green<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8th October 2022<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was the day of my flu jab 20212 on the dot next to the sea Would I like a pneumonia vaccine Yes What are the side effects Irritability and fussiness I would not notice these\/neither would you Book it in a few days\/or come back next week For the rest of the […]<\/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-12191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191","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=12191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12194,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12191\/revisions\/12194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}