Joe
Many people say that you are a cruel person
Do you think you are a cruel person
No
Explain
I am a kind person
Who told you that
The chap in the mirror
I have read many of your Joe and Josie posts
You do not take prisoners
I am a compassionate person
That is why I write as I do
The trouble\u00a0is that people cannot separate\u00a0Joe from Joe
I am called various names
But that is like calling Agatha Christie a murderer
Because she wrote about murder
Most of my Joe’s are written to illustrate decay
At this present point in history society is decaying
There are many reasons for this
But it is not irreversible
Far from it
It is the job of my pen to illustrate this
My first love is poetry
It is a gift directly from God
I am so privileged to be in this position
But there are caveats as I also have the ability to write
Then why do you not write a novel
Because I am a poet
My brain is wired to be a poet
There is a subtle difference
Sadly I find most of what is written today pretty tedious
If I wrote a novel it would not be published
Why
Because publishers on the whole are cowards
Do you have a favourite author
I do not like the word favourite
But I do read\u00a0Michel Houellebecq
Who I admire
Will you ever conclude your Joe & Josie series
Yes
Why
Because I will have exhausted the subject
I have been near it already
Your poetry
No that will continue unless I feel the silence
In a recent interview you said that if you were granted a wish to live anywhere in the world it would be a gulag
Why did you say that
Because I have always been interested in the abyss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Many people say that you are a cruel person Do you think you are a cruel person No Explain I am a kind person Who told you that The chap in the mirror I have read many of your Joe and Josie posts You do not take prisoners I am a compassionate person That […]<\/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-20185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185","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=20185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20186,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185\/revisions\/20186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}