{"id":7847,"date":"2021-07-01T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T10:03:33","slug":"the-journey-of-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/the-journey-of-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of an Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walk to Ramsgate station but be careful when crossing the roads<\/p>\n<p>Do not let the decay of the town depress you as things will change<\/p>\n<p>Buy a newspaper and a bottle of water as the air is fresh humid<\/p>\n<p>Bring your mask but do not wear it as you a double vaxxed WASP boy<\/p>\n<p>There is a choice of trains left and right Choose Life Choose Dover as it is the prettier route<\/p>\n<p>Sandwich Deal Walmer Martin Mill and then views to the sea free sea free sea<\/p>\n<p>Folkestone x 2 rural Kent bucolic Kent &#8211; The Garden of England <em>(true<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Sad sandwiches sold in Sandwich are for sale Peter Purchase is the train manager<\/p>\n<p>He loves Sarah Smith from Southend softly from afar<\/p>\n<p>Ashford International France is so very near but so far blame the rest of the world<\/p>\n<p>Time to read the newspaper &#8211; WOKE this CORRECT that how I hate the malignant LEFT<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts of <em>The Disappeared in Argentina\u00a0<\/em>pass through my mind but we are all the children of GOD<\/p>\n<p>And I love GOD and hopes he\/she loves me<\/p>\n<p>Organic Buddy Holly<\/p>\n<p>Marigolds and Green Glasses<\/p>\n<p>Is the name of my latest work which hangs in my studio in Mar\/Rams GATE<\/p>\n<p>Stratford International a brutalist masterpiece LOVE LOVE LOVE<\/p>\n<p>One day I will alight there and enjoy the super trains screaming through the station<\/p>\n<p>I am due to meet John and Tracey at St P St P just John and Tracey you and me<\/p>\n<p>The air is filthy I miss the sea air but will return later in the day after the meeting fleeting meeting<\/p>\n<p>I paint for money nothing else I take commissions and prostitute my talent and at 30 am already a failure<\/p>\n<p>But we all fail in different ways<\/p>\n<p>I am happy very happy<\/p>\n<p>But fooled by the bright toys<\/p>\n<p>That surround my blurred reflection<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk to Ramsgate station but be careful when crossing the roads Do not let the decay of the town depress you as things will change Buy a newspaper and a bottle of water as the air is fresh humid Bring your mask but do not wear it as you a double vaxxed WASP boy There [&hellip;]<\/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\/7847"}],"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=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}