Jack Kerouac once said and I quote<\/p>\n
Don’t use the phone<\/em><\/p>\n People are never ready to answer it<\/em><\/p>\n Use poetry<\/em><\/p>\n I tend to agree with him as poetry is the purest form of writing<\/p>\n It is harder to write poetry than prose<\/p>\n I could never write a conventional novel<\/p>\n As I would reverse the narrative<\/p>\n It would become elliptical<\/p>\n And characters would just vanish<\/p>\n All before the end of chapter two<\/p>\n My heroine would have raven hair<\/p>\n Just like the dark lady of the sonnets<\/p>\n And then she would become an icy blonde<\/p>\n This is why I write poetry and not prose<\/p>\n If you imagine an imaginary circle<\/p>\n You will find that most people<\/p>\n Would enter a the highest point<\/p>\n But others would enter at a lower angle<\/p>\n These are the poets and the thinkers<\/p>\n I am not saying that either of these people<\/p>\n are better or more intellectually<\/p>\n gifted than the other<\/p>\n but they do differ<\/p>\n It is all a matter of angles<\/p>\n Poetry speaks to us all<\/p>\n But we do not listen to it<\/p>\n It is the same as ignoring the phone<\/p>\n Because you are in the bath<\/p>\n With a Catholic priest<\/p>\n Who has promised to keep quiet<\/p>\n As buggery is forbidden<\/p>\n In rented flats with views to the street<\/p>\n If I slipped a poem under your door<\/p>\n You would read it and wonder<\/p>\n Why I did not hand it to you in person<\/p>\n As it was rather good in a strange way<\/p>\n Straight men do not write poems about buggery<\/p>\n As the act secretly disgusts them<\/p>\n I find that writing about women<\/p>\n Is an easier task as I adore the feminine<\/p>\n Women are adorable creatures<\/p>\n So suited for a poets pen<\/p>\n And if they possess a rare beauty<\/p>\n Then poems such as this one<\/p>\n Will be created and recorded<\/p>\n In your blind subconscious<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jack Kerouac once said and I quote Don’t use the phone People are never ready to answer it Use poetry I tend to agree with him as poetry is the purest form of writing It is harder to write poetry than prose I could never write a conventional novel As I would reverse the narrative […]<\/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\/7404"}],"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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}