After I was released from prison<\/p>\n
It was suggested that I work<\/p>\n
In a chip shop in Wolverhampton<\/p>\n
It was not much of a job<\/p>\n
But I soon became friends<\/p>\n
With an Argentinian woman<\/p>\n
Who called herself<\/p>\n
Artemisia Gentileschi<\/p>\n
After the 17th Century artist<\/p>\n
I did not know her real name<\/p>\n
But did find out that she was a recovering addict<\/p>\n
Although she was quite plain and a little overweight<\/p>\n
I found her attractive and interesting<\/p>\n
But she would not reveal her histories to me<\/p>\n
So I tried to impress her with my failed poetry<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Ghosts\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I am not here<\/em><\/p>\n I have been here\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n All my dreams\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Are scripted by ghosts<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Estudiantes<\/em><\/p>\n A girl with a red flag\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Was standing by\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n A shattered wall\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In the distance\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The first gunshots\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Of the revolution\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Were breaking the silence<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frida\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n On the day of her wedding\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n To Diego Rivera\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Frida borrowed a dress\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n From a friend\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Her reception was held\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n In the house <\/em><\/p>\n Of a photographer<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These were the only poems I had<\/p>\n As my notebook had been stolen in prison<\/p>\n It was after I had shown her my work<\/p>\n That Artemisia told me that she was married<\/p>\n Which I had suspected all along<\/p>\n As she often chatted on her mobile<\/p>\n When the shop was quiet and the owners absent<\/p>\n I was a little disappointed but I was a realist<\/p>\n As prison strips away everything else<\/p>\n Yet I can say that I was more than a little surprised<\/p>\n When I found out that she had married Sheba<\/p>\n Who had been her prison warder<\/p>\n I am now involved in a community project<\/p>\n Which tries to stop kids from wasting their lives<\/p>\n It has been very successful which is good<\/p>\n But I am still terribly lonely and sad<\/p>\n And am looking for love and companionship<\/p>\n I have been clean for three and a half years now<\/p>\n Which is very important to me as that is what fucked me up<\/p>\n I still write poor poetry as it is a relaxing pastime<\/p>\n David has arranged for a collection of six of my poems<\/p>\n To be published in an ex offenders book of poetry<\/p>\n This has pleased me as you might guess<\/p>\n Although I consider myself a poet only fit for circles<\/p>\n My collection of poems has a somewhat unusual title<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sleeping in Nicaragua\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After I was released from prison It was suggested that I work In a chip shop in Wolverhampton It was not much of a job But I soon became friends With an Argentinian woman Who called herself Artemisia Gentileschi After the 17th Century artist I did not know her real name But did find out […]<\/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\/7831"}],"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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}