On the first day of my new freedom<\/p>\n
I purchased a book of poetry<\/p>\n
These were the works of Lord Byron<\/p>\n
Who I admired greatly<\/p>\n
However in between the soft pages<\/p>\n
Of this scruffy scuffed book<\/p>\n
I found a number of newspaper reviews<\/p>\n
Dating back over fifty years<\/p>\n
One of which noted that the poets preoccupation<\/p>\n
with incest in his tragedies sprang from his affair<\/p>\n
with his half sister and I quote<\/p>\n
Yet he took to her I believe because My sister with and I live in a coastal house<\/p>\n Which has views of France on sharp clear days<\/p>\n She did not care for the works of my cherished poet<\/p>\n And thought that him crude and an unpleasant man<\/p>\n Yes when I was ill in hospital last year<\/p>\n She secreted a small lavender envelope<\/p>\n Containing her pubic hair under my pillow<\/p>\n I later had this envelope stitched<\/p>\n Into the lining of my best tweed jacket<\/p>\n Near to the hollow echoes of my aching heart<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rebecca Tonks 2021<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the first day of my new freedom I purchased a book of poetry These were the works of Lord Byron Who I admired greatly However in between the soft pages Of this scruffy scuffed book I found a number of newspaper reviews Dating back over fifty years One of which noted that the poets […]<\/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\/7049"}],"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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>she enjoyed making jokes and making love
\n<\/em>in defiance of a taboo was unimportant
\n<\/em>except as an afterthought\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n