I went to a Lou Doillon concert and as arranged met her afterwards with my partner Stephen Masefield in a pub near the harbour arm<\/p>\n
Stephen read a number of poems which Lou enjoyed very much and we all chatted for the best part of an hour<\/p>\n
My name is Harry Harper and I am a poet<\/p>\n
I am married to Jane Stephen but Stephen is a large part of my life<\/p>\n
Jane who by then had found us invited Lou to a supper later in the week<\/p>\n
Which she accepted without thought<\/p>\n
We are all artists in our own fields<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It makes me sad to see that Folkestone<\/p>\n
Has grown so soiled<\/p>\n
It is quite ordinary in places<\/p>\n
Once it was a most beautiful town<\/p>\n
Loved by many<\/p>\n
But then God withdrew this love<\/p>\n
As the town had become conceited<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The town did not deserve this treatment<\/p>\n
And I am still angry with God<\/p>\n
It deserves compassion and his gentle love<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But this can be said of many coastal towns<\/p>\n
Which have turned grey<\/p>\n
Since their finest days<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Dream Life of Angels\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Is playing at the cinema on the hill<\/p>\n Jane Stephen and I were the only audience<\/p>\n Which is a little sad<\/p>\n As Elodie Bouchez is a fine actress<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next week Willy Wonka is playing<\/p>\n Which I guess will be more suitable<\/p>\n For the squashed people of the town<\/p>\n I think it will play to packed houses<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have been told by Jane<\/p>\n That I am a fashionista<\/p>\n She says that I have an excellent eye<\/p>\n And know what works and what is chic<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My eye was troubled greatly<\/p>\n As\u00a0 I walked the streets of the town<\/p>\n I say troubled but it is much offended<\/p>\n So I wore the shaded glasses of Zbigniew Cybulski<\/p>\n To lessen the pain that I was experiencing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the railway statement<\/p>\n I saw a woman carrying<\/p>\n A transparent station bag<\/p>\n With a toy dog trapped inside<\/p>\n This was meant to be a fashion statement<\/p>\n But all I saw was a fucked off dog suffocating slowly<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tears of adoration ran down my face<\/p>\n As I shared the last moments of the dog<\/p>\n Leave the soft plant in the corner\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Were its lasts words faint but auditable<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I was angry with the woman<\/p>\n Not so much because the dog had died<\/p>\n But because she had committed a fashion crime<\/p>\n Which was unforgivable in front of my beautiful God<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It was then that I realised that fashion<\/p>\n As we know it had died in Folkestone in 1998<\/p>\n And only angels dreamt of its return<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As with the toy dog\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The soft plant\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In the corner\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Also died<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to a Lou Doillon concert and as arranged met her afterwards with my partner Stephen Masefield in a pub near the harbour arm Stephen read a number of poems which Lou enjoyed very much and we all chatted for the best part of an hour My name is Harry Harper and I am […]<\/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\/7270"}],"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=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}