{"id":5910,"date":"2020-12-07T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:36:29","slug":"only-beautiful-women-have-perfumed-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/only-beautiful-women-have-perfumed-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Beautiful Women Have Perfumed Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lena was waiting for a train at a small Swiss railway station<\/p>\n<p>She was reading a novel by Ayn Rand<\/p>\n<p><em>The question not who is going to let me\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But its who is going to stop me\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This collection of seemingly random words<\/p>\n<p>Were spinning in her head<\/p>\n<p>In the distance she heard the siren of a police car<\/p>\n<p><em>They could not have discovered his body so soon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She had chosen a hotel away from prying cameras<\/p>\n<p>To assassinate a corrupt and perverted man<\/p>\n<p>She had cut his throat as he took a bath<\/p>\n<p>Lena looked at herself in the window opposite<\/p>\n<p>Just an ordinary traveller with a tired back pack<\/p>\n<p>Travelling between countries as hundreds do<\/p>\n<p>The siren grew nearer and then faded<\/p>\n<p>Her train drew in with a great deal of effort<\/p>\n<p>And soon she was sitting in her seat<\/p>\n<p>Watching the landscapes change<\/p>\n<p>She thought of the hunting knife<\/p>\n<p>That now lay at the bottom of the river<\/p>\n<p>It had no history as she had no history<\/p>\n<p>That was why she was so efficient<\/p>\n<p>When she finally arrived in Berlin<\/p>\n<p>Lena went to the Hotel Voltaire<\/p>\n<p>She showered and settled in front of the television<\/p>\n<p><em>Edwin Rohlm found murdered in his hotel room\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Famous MEP found murdered\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Naked MEP brutally murdered in his bath<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The headlines screamed from the screen<\/p>\n<p>But she the felt same as she always did<\/p>\n<p>For who in their sanity would suspect<\/p>\n<p>A beautiful woman with a perfumed memory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lena was waiting for a train at a small Swiss railway station She was reading a novel by Ayn Rand The question not who is going to let me\u00a0 But its who is going to stop me\u00a0 This collection of seemingly random words Were spinning in her head In the distance she heard the siren [&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\/5910"}],"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=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}