{"id":5357,"date":"2020-11-13T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T13:56:20","slug":"out-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/13\/out-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am currently looking at a photograph taken in the Wakayama Prefecture in Japan<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It shows hundreds of fireflies dancing in a bamboo forest<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are no fireflies in this dining room<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Spanish waiter has presented me with a book of poems by Mao Tsetung<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My wife has finished her starter and is listening to the wind<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Beating against the wide windows<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is dark outside but I can see the white surf<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of the angry sea<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are three other couples in this lonely room<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They are speaking quietly to each other<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The man at Table 10 is mentally undressing my wife<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whilst his wife stares into her leek and potato soup<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This pleases me as I spent the afternoon relaxing on my wife&#8217;s full breasts<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Listening to the harsh winds attack the sea<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am the only person in the hotel<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who is in possession of this book of poems<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later as we walked along the battered promenade<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I asked my wife if she had written these poems<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She smiled at me and told me that they were genuine<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And were the Great Leaders final gift to me<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently looking at a photograph taken in the Wakayama Prefecture in Japan It shows hundreds of fireflies dancing in a bamboo forest There are no fireflies in this dining room The Spanish waiter has presented me with a book of poems by Mao Tsetung My wife has finished her starter and is listening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}