{"id":14110,"date":"2023-05-06T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14110"},"modified":"2023-05-07T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T23:02:04","slug":"the-sober-crimes-of-hart-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/06\/the-sober-crimes-of-hart-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sober Crimes of Hart Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Today I purchased <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Complete Poems of Hart Crane <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a second hand bookshop <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Newton Abbot <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a lucky find <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my train was seriously delayed <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was whilst reading Crane&#8217;s poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That a waitress in the buffet approached me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And expressed an interest in his work <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We read together between tea toast and buns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And later went on a crime spree in the town <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was arrested in Dartmouth later that evening <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was charged with reading American poetry <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the impressionable buffet waitress <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In court I pleaded guilty to all charges <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was fined five pounds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My book of poetry was also confiscated <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mai Mai is still on the run<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And was last seen reading <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Complete Poems of Hart Crane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the sea wall near Dawlish Railway Station <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I purchased The Complete Poems of Hart Crane From a second hand bookshop In Newton Abbot This was a lucky find As my train was seriously delayed It was whilst reading Crane&#8217;s poetry That a waitress in the buffet approached me And expressed an interest in his work We read together between tea toast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110","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=14110"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14123,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14110\/revisions\/14123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}