{"id":5799,"date":"2020-11-27T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2020-11-27T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:17:06","slug":"nude-in-an-ashtray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/27\/nude-in-an-ashtray\/","title":{"rendered":"Nude in an Ashtray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a wet afternoon in Paris<\/p>\n<p>I found myself in the Blue Blue White<\/p>\n<p>On the long street of the souls<\/p>\n<p>I sat at the table nearest to the window<\/p>\n<p>And shared a coffee with my younger self<\/p>\n<p>The tablecloths were new and crisp to the touch<\/p>\n<p>Mine was red with silver blue flowers<\/p>\n<p>It was an attractive combination<\/p>\n<p>But there was a naked girl in the ashtray<\/p>\n<p>Who I recognised as my missing twin<\/p>\n<p>I asked her of her location on the table<\/p>\n<p>She told me that she had always lived there<\/p>\n<p>And although naked was blissfully happy<\/p>\n<p>She asked me where I had been during our early years<\/p>\n<p>I told her that I had always been there for her<\/p>\n<p>But had been blinded by the fair lights of the city<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>After the watercolour by Pauline Coffre<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a wet afternoon in Paris I found myself in the Blue Blue White On the long street of the souls I sat at the table nearest to the window And shared a coffee with my younger self The tablecloths were new and crisp to the touch Mine was red with silver blue flowers It [&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\/5799"}],"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=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}