{"id":13758,"date":"2023-04-10T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=13758"},"modified":"2023-04-10T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T09:37:08","slug":"choose-life-choose-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/choose-life-choose-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose Life Choose Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This poem is not going to be typical of me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be no mystery to it at all <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No dreams no journeys no friends <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing at all this is an empty poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am sitting on the platform <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Corrour Railway Station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is fucking cold so fucking cold <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am on the run again as I have fucked up <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never revisit the scene of your crime <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if you have not committed a crime<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cops are chasing me so I might stay here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are plenty of places to hide or freeze <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stole a bag on the train earlier and it contained <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hiking jacket (blue) cereal bars (dozens)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spare boots (too small) and female underwear (used)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Letters to Alice Letters to Anne <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two custard mags (one used I have not checked the other) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five cycling club tee shirts (new) and a photograph of Meryl Streep (odd) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admire you Gordon McCready and this might even grow into love <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your property will be left on a future train minus the jacket <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that you will understand <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are not going to believe what I am accused of <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murder (nah) Drugs (nah) Robbery (nah) Anything Else (nah) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is so surreal and a million miles away from Corrour <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am accused of being an active member of the Weather Underground <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus Fucking Christ I was only five at the time of <em>18 West 11th Street<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that is it here I am writing this awful poem on a bleak Highland day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is far removed from my normal work but I suppose it deserves to be written <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cops are likely to be on the next train and I can hear sirens in the distance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(why do you need  fucking sirens just send me a text you dim cunts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully I will finish this poem <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before they start shooting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not armed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a little wet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a lost poet <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will take me alive <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choose Life Choose Poetry <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is not going to be typical of me There will be no mystery to it at all No dreams no journeys no friends Nothing at 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