{"id":4854,"date":"2020-10-30T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T10:43:42","slug":"letters-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/30\/letters-from-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The pillars that support the concrete bridge are not empty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are quite hollow<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>People laugh at me when I say this<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They contain gangsters who fell out with other gangsters<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And letters from Hong Kong<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was a gangster but I am no longer a gangster<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My driver shot me in the head in a rapid dream<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I knew this and killed my driver when I woke up<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The filthy pillar that faces my bedroom window<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Contains his brutalised remains<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thousands of cars pass by every day<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Unaware of his troubled eternity<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That is why I am no longer a gangster<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When the bridge is finally demolished<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The remains of my driver and other gangsters will be found<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But I will be long gone and forgotten<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And living quietly with my wife in Hong Kong<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pillars that support the concrete bridge are not empty They are quite hollow People laugh at me when I say this They contain gangsters who fell out with other gangsters And letters from Hong Kong I was a gangster but I am no longer a gangster My driver shot me in the head in [&hellip;]<\/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\/4854"}],"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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}