{"id":12339,"date":"2023-01-19T18:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2023-01-19T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T18:57:55","slug":"a-bunch-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/a-bunch-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bunch of Flowers<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know what Gerald did last summer <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He locked Judy out of their house <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow that was daring Gerald <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was wearing only her knickers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow Gerald I love you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did it happen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were having a petty tiff <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About what <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that she had said something unpleasant about his football pals <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Judy be a one dimensional cow <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did happen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you know they have a large garden <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well he was in the garden near the pool <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was sunbathing topless <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judy always sunbathes topless <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would sunbathe topless if we had a garden <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is wrong with our balcony <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing but it is too narrow and overlooks the trains <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go on <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well as I said they had had a Gerald Judy tiff <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A silences and sulks <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Gerald hatched a plan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He waited for the Richards next door to actually live in their house <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And suggested to Judy that they should enjoy some rays before the as the day was warm <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This they did as he knew that Judy often fell asleep in the semi shadows <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She did <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did what <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall asleep <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the Richards arrive <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early as luck would have it <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But surely she could have rushed in if she cared at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gerald had locked all the doors and fucked off somewhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did she do <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make plans to kill him painfully I would imagine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She just swam and sunbathed <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Richards <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is where Gerald sealed his fate <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had guests that day <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know no more <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would you do if I did that to you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you loosen the balcony rail <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no modesty <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If means so little to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you once did something not so long ago that made me cry <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was at a bus stop and your idiotic prank brought tears to my eyes <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not remember that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dried grasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the dried grasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You remember how cross you were when I disposed of your red dried grasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was cruel of you Jane <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I loved those grasses and often photographed them against the summer skies <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunrises and sunsets were my favourite times <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You destroyed my ideal <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was devastated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seeds got everywhere and Cleo used to love diving into the grasses with catastrophic consequences <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had to go <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You took no notice of my artistic eye <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuck your artistic eye <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I vowed to get revenge <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so you did <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always knew that you were a cunt <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what a cunt <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You said that you would never buty me flowers again <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I meant it <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet I saw you in the market a few weeks later buying a beautiful bunch of flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was so happy and I felt feminine again privileged and much loved<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I found out that you had another woman in your life <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A girl of tender years called Esther Ring <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you suddenly became jealous of a girl who had been in Heaven since 1834<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not funny Stan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I almost left you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You sent me a photo of the bunch of flowers in front of Esther’s memorial <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was devastated that you loved a long dead girl more that me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your emotions are different from the average Jane <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know that I adopt graves occasionally <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friends think you are soft in the head <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about honour and memory <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is weird Stan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that you do not mean that Jane <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are on my wavelength <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not the photo that upset me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then what was it <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the sight of you casually walking towards the bus stop with the bunch of flowers in your arms <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They WERE for me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You cruel subtlety had broken me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt tears welling in my eyes <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And hated you and loved you at the same time <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was hoping that the number 28 bus would swing around the corner and flatten you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about the flowers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wished no ill on the flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You spotted my liquid eyes but did not gloat <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is what saved you     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What saved Gerald <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judy gave away his train set <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He loved it greatly and was forced to repurchase it from the local charity shop <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It cost him \u00a3100 it was a triumph for Judy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think you thought you had won <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not think of it that way <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you realise that when you buy me a bunch of red dried flowers then the circle will be complete <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then only an uneasy truce will exist <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will buy you bunches of beautiful flowers as I always have<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And will leave nothing but a single bloom on Esther’s memorial once a year<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 On December the 17th to be exact <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is set in stone <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I will not forgive you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Glance out of the window <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at the railway tracks nearest to these apartments <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you see <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The usual shit <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look closely <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you see <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not sure but I would think that there are two or maybe three bunches of flowers much damaged by the passing trains <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are the remains of dried flowers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have on three occasions purchased bunches of dried flowers for you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But have on each of these occasions thrown them from the balcony for the trains to destroy as I am still fucked off with you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the cruellest thing that you have ever done to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still hate you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I hate you <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stan <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you go to the trash cupboard <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I think Amazon have left a parcel in there although I have not ordered anything <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay give me sec as I am writing this fiction <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In your own time My Prince <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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