In about an hour the cops<\/p>\n
Will have caught up with me<\/p>\n
They are closing in from all sides<\/p>\n
I am trapped on this icy beach<\/p>\n
The deadly east winds<\/p>\n
Pistol whip my already injured face<\/p>\n
But I feel no pain<\/p>\n
The sea is hostile and lacks music<\/p>\n
No beast so fierce but knows I am reading from Shakespeare<\/p>\n From a book I stole from the prison library<\/p>\n That was their first mistake<\/p>\n As they tried to educate me<\/p>\n One cannot not educate a monster<\/p>\n I have killed a president<\/p>\n And am a hunted animal<\/p>\n But I know none A frail boat is distant from me<\/p>\n I will reach it without regret<\/p>\n But the sea will consume us both<\/p>\n This is my only chance<\/p>\n I did what I felt was right<\/p>\n And can hear with a certain clarity<\/p>\n The bitter songs of the void<\/p>\n Screeching above the wretched waves<\/p>\n I squeeze the Kings poem<\/p>\n Into my torn pocket<\/p>\n And stumble towards the bleak jetty<\/p>\n I will raise a sail<\/p>\n And commence the journey<\/p>\n Into my chosen grey abyss<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In about an hour the cops Will have caught up with me They are closing in from all sides I am trapped on this icy beach The deadly east winds Pistol whip my already injured face But I feel no pain The sea is hostile and lacks music No beast so fierce but knows some […]<\/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\/6504"}],"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=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>some touch of pity<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>and therefore am no beast<\/em><\/p>\n