{"id":12344,"date":"2023-01-19T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12344"},"modified":"2023-01-19T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:03:16","slug":"the-last-living-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/the-last-living-man\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Last Living Man<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I the last living man&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That sees the real earth and skies&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actual life and real death&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The others are all prophets and&nbsp;believers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delirious with fevers of faith&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What said that&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson Jeffers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are you asking me that question Cleo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Jane is in the bath&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She likes her self&nbsp;time&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most women do&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They quietly resent a male presence whilst bathing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men usually barge&nbsp;in to take a piss or a shit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is very disturbing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are reading poetry in bed Stan&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because my newspaper is missing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is unfortunate&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Jane used it to line my cat litter tray&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you not go out like other cats&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because we live in an apartment&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four floors above the railway lines&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You could shit on next doors balcony Cleo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would but they polish it with lavender&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Search me&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just do not like the smell of lavender&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What about number six&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have thought about it Stan&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they are Japanese&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I adore the culture of Japan and if I shit on their balcony some might consider it a racist act&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could always buy you a collar and lead&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In your dreams&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nice blue one Cleo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a girl&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could walk around the old gas towers&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you realise Stan that your fading street cred would be reduced to zero&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A French poet once walked a lobster around&nbsp;Paris&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know but this is not Paris but Kings Cross&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it is okay I am going to vanish&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jane is out of the bath&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know how much you like her walking around in a towel and less&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your profound book of poetry will fall to the floor (just missing me) and you will play silly games with her&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are certainly not the last living man&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far from it&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I the last living man&nbsp; 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