{"id":4698,"date":"2020-10-14T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T15:00:38","slug":"subways-and-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/subways-and-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"Subways and Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Existence is of little interest to me except\u00a0<\/i>on days when the dusts<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
of reality are mingled with the magic sands<\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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I had written this on a poster that was promoting a male deodorant\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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It had been borrowed from Proust but I had disguised this fact\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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As only the\u00a0<\/span><\/i>switched on minds would have appreciated my small humour\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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A busker had witnessed my vandalism but continued with his song\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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As did the station employee who really I believe did not give a fuck\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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So many people hated their jobs\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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I hated mine and had dreams of leaving with a single fingered salute\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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But my plans were always desolate and reeked of decay\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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This is the reason that I\u00a0<\/span><\/i>defaced subway posters with quotes that I had either stolen or made up myself<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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I thought that I was an urban artist\u00a0<\/span><\/i>but I was nothing like that\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Graffiti was\u00a0<\/span><\/i>the art of the masses but I knew that the great unwashed did not understand a word of what I was saying\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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They probably knew more about Cornflake cartons than they did of Proust\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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A photograph of Marcel Proust on his death bed revealed the growth of a beard\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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I was growing a beard to disguise myself as I knew that the cops had my likeness and would catch me before long\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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In their eyes I was a public nuisance a time waster who was spoiling things for others not that they gave a shit about subway posters\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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The trains were the important thing not some cunt spraying deodorant on to his\u00a0<\/span><\/i>strangely shaven armpits<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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I was actually doing them a service for as well as educating them I was an entertainer a wit and a philosopher all\u00a0<\/span><\/i>rolled into one\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Subways and Proust<\/b>\u00a0was my only tag\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Existence is of little interest to me except\u00a0on days when the dusts of reality are mingled with the magic sands\u00a0 \u00a0 I had written this on a poster that was promoting a male deodorant\u00a0 \u00a0 It had been borrowed from Proust but I had disguised this fact\u00a0 \u00a0 As only the\u00a0switched on minds would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}