When reading my poetry at a gathering recently I was asked by a rather butch woman whether I was a lesbian<\/p>\n
I explained to her that I was to all intents a man and in possession of a rather happy penis<\/p>\n
She said that her question had arisen whilst reading my poetry and that she had particularly liked my poem about Anne Lister<\/p>\n
I assured her that I had never written a poem about Anne Lister although I much admired her<\/p>\n
The woman showed me a copy of the poem which had been written by anonymously by a famous Hollywood actress<\/p>\n
She said that the perspective that the poem exhibited showed a deep understanding of the Sapphic mind and she would like to get to know me better<\/p>\n
I was struggling as although in an awkward position I am never rude<\/p>\n
That is not the way I function<\/p>\n
In a way I liken myself to Edward Fitzgerald<\/p>\n
I looked for my publisher but he was nowhere to be seen<\/p>\n
Indeed the room was rather empty<\/p>\n
It was then that a waif of a girl (who I later found out was the girlfriend of the woman<\/em>) rushed towards us<\/p>\n She was wearing a stained white vest and scruffy jeans and reminded me of a young Jane Birkin<\/p>\n I thought that a jealous scene might occur but I was very wrong as the girl implored us both to look at the television screen in the main hall<\/p>\n Notre Dame was on fire<\/p>\n I did not follow the odd couple but instead looked at the coverage on my phone<\/p>\n It was as I watched the tragic events unfold that I decided to write a poem about Anne Lister which I would include in my next collection<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When reading my poetry at a gathering recently I was asked by a rather butch woman whether I was a lesbian I explained to her that I was to all intents a man and in possession of a rather happy penis She said that her question had arisen whilst reading my poetry and that she […]<\/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\/6771"}],"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=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}