{"id":13564,"date":"2023-03-27T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:03:34","slug":"existentialists-in-a-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/27\/existentialists-in-a-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Existentialists in a Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interview <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning Stuart <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning Maureen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It says Maureen on your badge <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I prefer to be called Mo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is strange as I prefer to be called SMO <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those are your initials <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So they are <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think we have connected <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe we have <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May I ask you a question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you wearing underpants <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What colour are they <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black I always wear black <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a sexist question<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always ask sexist questions <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue I am wearing blue <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue is the Warmest Colour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to think that I have never heard that one before <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SMO <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you write bad poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I do not write good poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your poetry offends many people <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really I thought it was more the fictions and the miniatures <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the words you use are offensive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you use them <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you look both ways when you cross a road <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes is your answer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are not answering my question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you trying to make me cry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often cry when I read some of your beautiful poems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because their beauty moves me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you cry when you write them <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only inside <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where does it all come from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I understand your answer but how does that apply to your other poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What other poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your hostile poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not write hostile poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have always wanted to argue with you <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is in my hostile poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is in your hostile poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does God hang out in your hostile poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God is male <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because he cannot cook <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mo <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you write poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I am not good enough <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everybody is good enough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I disagree <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Write a poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you really want to fuck me<br>Whilst enjoying High Tea <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fucking me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then what <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You remind me of The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes in one of Sartre&#8217;s stories <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who was she <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did she do <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She slept with Mathieu before he went to war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he asked of her name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She replied <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mathieu had revealed his name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have revealed our names <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know the colour of your underwear <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you mine <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not going to war <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We differ in many ways <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But supposing that I had not revealed my name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would I have been <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because you have a name badge on <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maureen Blocker <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not my real name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s telling <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are at an advantage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you know my name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is on your books <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is my pen name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My real name is Stephen Masefield <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same as my father <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only use Stuart Miller Osborne as a pen name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am shy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where is your father <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Heaven <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is he dead <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No just on a day trip <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are going to make me cry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you a tissue <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neither have I <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shit happens <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did your father die <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a car crash in Ealing <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He must have been very young <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nineteen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he had written a lot of poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was being celebrated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like Rimbaud <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a way <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you miss him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hardly knew him <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A note from my late father <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read it to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen I was in North London today sitting on a bench <br>When I saw a very beautiful woman wearing a white blouse<br>And a short brown skirt <br>She smiled at me <br>I smiled back <br>She was carrying a book of my poetry <br>And asked me to sign it <br>I agreed but only if she would sign my suicide note <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please keep it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It means little to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just tell me your real name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am the <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just call me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Girl <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview Good Morning Stuart Good Morning Maureen Mo It says Maureen on your badge I prefer to be called Mo That is strange as I prefer to be called SMO Those are your initials So they are I think we have connected I believe we have May I ask 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