{"id":5406,"date":"2020-11-15T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2020-11-16T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:37:16","slug":"green-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/green-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had awoken early because of the heat and sat on the balcony looking at the sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawn was not far away and was beginning to illuminate my garden<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gentle breeze was creating calm ripples in the swimming pool<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the children\u2019s pirate flag was fluttering above their summer house<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What are you thinking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>About everything and nothing<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The sky is quite beautiful this morning<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My wife was standing quite naked in front of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I could not sleep<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Neither could I<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Sometimes these late dog days can be the most beautiful yet the most uncomfortable<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I agree<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0O<\/em><em>ne is expecting autumn and its slow decay and then the heat of summer returns<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My wife was standing quite naked in front of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or so I thought she was but I was alone<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had no wife<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was no garden or swimming pool<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had no children and I was not sitting alone on a balcony<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hospital ward had been quiet for a couple of hours save for the odd groan and snore<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had been admitted a couple of days ago after being attacked for no real reason<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They just did not like the look of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am a junkie<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fucking junkie<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I take drugs<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They control each second of my life<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Coffee<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My wife was standing quite naked in front of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Please<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Would you like it on the balcony<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nurse was standing quite naked in front of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Michael I am going to raise your pillow<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>You do not have to move<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Just look at me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I am afraid that your injuries are so severe that you are going to die<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>But I thought that I would give you water before you go \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I will finish my shift in an hour<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Do you like my breasts<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>You will never see my breasts again<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>By the time that you are taken from the ward<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I will be in my bed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is Sunday I am not working until Wednesday<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Perhaps my husband will fuck me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I like it from behind as I do not have to do much work<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>You cannot guess how this job tires me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>You will be on the slab and I will be in my bed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>My cunt will be tingling<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Phillip always makes my cunt tingle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He knows how to hit the spot<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>But you do not really care do you as with your injuries you would not be able to fuck a snail<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Life can be really shitty<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Phillip is selling his company<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I will be able to quit this fucking job<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It has taken a while<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>But we are there<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Our house has a swimming pool<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>And a balcony<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had awoken early because of the heat and sat on the balcony looking at the sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawn was not far away and was beginning to illuminate my garden<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gentle breeze was creating calm ripples in the swimming pool<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the children\u2019s pirate flag was fluttering above their summer house<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What do you think I should call our new house Michael<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is currently called Epping Woods<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>But I do not like that name<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Would you like me to call it Michael after you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It has a beautiful aspect<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>East to West<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I can see the sun rise and I can watch it set without leaving my bed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The naked nurse lowered my pillow<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could feel the vibrations of the mechanism<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is a bit like being lowered in to a grave<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I often play with these beds when sister is not looking<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>They just fascinate me<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Perhaps Phillip will buy me one<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>All of my own<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He could fuck me on it<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>We could choose our angle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>He is very successful you know<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It has taken a few years but we have arrived<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>His company sold insulation components to the developing countries<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I cannot think why they would have needed them<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>As it is so fucking hot\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Look Mucharl there is a butterfly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is hsunting the windows<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What a beautiful creature it is<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>We are in the dog days of summer you know<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The summer pretends it is dying like you and then rears its head and lets the heat cascade<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>We are always unprepared<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is like the summer saying fuck you<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Before the autumn winds<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The cooler winds will kill the butterfly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It will become drowsy and down<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I have seen death many times<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>It is always different<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Have you any thoughts of what I should call my house\u00a0<\/em>I had awoken early because of the heat and sat on the balcony looking at the sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawn was not far away and was beginning to illuminate my garden<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gentle breeze was creating calm ripples in the swimming pool<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the children\u2019s pirate flag was fluttering above their summer house<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My wife was standing quite naked in front of me<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0She was was hard as rock<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>I was thinking of calling my beautiful house Green Venice<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had awoken early because of the heat and sat on the balcony looking at the sky Dawn was not far away and was beginning to illuminate my garden A gentle breeze was creating calm ripples in the swimming pool And the children\u2019s pirate flag was fluttering above their summer house What are you thinking 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