{"id":5950,"date":"2020-12-13T12:26:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T12:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2020-12-13T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T12:40:15","slug":"2-x-circle-1-rectangle-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/13\/2-x-circle-1-rectangle-28\/","title":{"rendered":"2 x Circle + 1 Rectangle = 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last six years I have lived in Paris<\/p>\n<p>With two gay girls<\/p>\n<p>Both are Spanish<\/p>\n<p>Their names are Elena and Elena<\/p>\n<p>Our cohabitation has worked successfully<\/p>\n<p>Even though I am not queer<\/p>\n<p>They look after my every need<\/p>\n<p>From the outside this seems an odd arrangement<\/p>\n<p>But truthfully we do not give a fig about other people<\/p>\n<p>Each of us writes poetry<\/p>\n<p>I write in English<\/p>\n<p>Elena writes in Spanish<\/p>\n<p>Elena writes in French and Spanish<\/p>\n<p>Due to her parentage<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we collaborate<\/p>\n<p>Blue Mice in Empty Cinemas<\/p>\n<p>Mice quite frequently run between the seats<\/p>\n<p>Of empty cinemas<\/p>\n<p>As the worn carpets are often carelessly cleaned<\/p>\n<p>Due to the stupidity of the low paid cleaners<\/p>\n<p>These mice come in two colours<\/p>\n<p>Blue and Red<\/p>\n<p>I prefer the blue ones<\/p>\n<p>Whereas Elena and Elena prefer the red mice<\/p>\n<p>As they both have emerald green hair<\/p>\n<p>I find that the blue mice are much quieter and more accommodating\u00a0than the red mice<\/p>\n<p>Who can be quite aggressive when they are near the more expensive seats<\/p>\n<p>We often watch movies together<\/p>\n<p>Our favourite movie is The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci<\/p>\n<p>Although I greatly admire Last Tango in Paris<\/p>\n<p>This view is not shared by Elena and Elena<\/p>\n<p>As they think that Paul is cruel to Jeanne<\/p>\n<p>Whose cunt they both admire<\/p>\n<p>We agree to differ as I consider this Brando&#8217;s greatest performance<\/p>\n<p>In The Dreamers the three main characters often bathe together<\/p>\n<p>We copy this recreation<\/p>\n<p>It gives us an opportunity to read our poems to each other<\/p>\n<p>In Spanish French and English<\/p>\n<p>I would not call our baths together cultural but they certainly work<\/p>\n<p>My sister considers it a kind of performance art<\/p>\n<p>And we have been invited to recreate it in a local gallery<\/p>\n<p>The owner will pay us each 1000 euros and two cases of the finest bath salts<\/p>\n<p>Elena and Elena have agreed as the owner is gay but I have reservations as my penis is quite small<\/p>\n<p>We could certainly could do with the money as I have recently lost my job in the city zoo<\/p>\n<p>I was told that they no longer employ poets as this can agitate the monkeys and certain reptiles<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully both of my flatmates are working which means that we only need to tighten our belts<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of becoming a mathematician as to date nobody has solved the following equation<\/p>\n<p>2 x Circle + 1 Rectangle = 28<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last six years I have lived in Paris With two gay girls Both are Spanish Their names are Elena and Elena Our cohabitation has worked successfully Even though I am not queer They look after my every need From the outside this seems an odd arrangement But truthfully we do not give a [&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\/5950"}],"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=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}