{"id":4967,"date":"2020-11-06T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T17:29:33","slug":"modernist-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/modernist-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernist Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am walking down a street of bookshops but they do not detain me<\/p>\n<p>My destination is the modernist bus station<\/p>\n<p>Which is situated in the deepest valley in the town<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was constructed totally of reinforced concrete<\/p>\n<p>And has been part of the urban landscape for over fifty years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I found the bus station to be quite busy<\/p>\n<p>But most of the pink and mauve buses were half empty<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From my vantage at stage six I can see the cone like shape of the building<\/p>\n<p>The upper levels are lit brightly by fluorescent lights<\/p>\n<p>And rise to seven floors although the seventh is quite hidden<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I find myself in the retain area which is situated underground<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of art shops facing me<\/p>\n<p>And I can see my reflection clearly in all their windows<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise I see that am wearing a canary yellow vest and blue jeans<\/p>\n<p>A woman comes out of the nearest shop and asks me if I am Paul Weller<\/p>\n<p>I assure her that I am not although I am slightly puzzled by her question<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I leave the Modernist bus station by the sixth entrance<\/p>\n<p>I put on my grey framed sunglasses<\/p>\n<p>As the sun is quite bright and high in the sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes I am approached by the woman&#8217;s stepsister<\/p>\n<p>Who asks me if I am Zbigniew Cybulski<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remove my sunglasses and note that although I have a passing resemblance to the late actor<\/p>\n<p>It is not my profession and I prefer to drive than take trains<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She smiles and gives me a pomegranate and returns to her thankful shop<\/p>\n<p>Which has a small door painted yellow<\/p>\n<p>And although much weathered<\/p>\n<p>I think that the colour of this door resembles my vest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am walking down a street of bookshops but they do not detain me My destination is the modernist bus station Which is situated in the deepest valley in the town &nbsp; It was constructed totally of reinforced concrete And has been part of the urban landscape for over fifty years &nbsp; I found the [&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\/4967"}],"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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}