There are no buses in the desert<\/p>\n
Said Alf<\/p>\n
There are no deserts in the buses<\/p>\n
Said Marie<\/p>\n
I was in Tangier writing poetry<\/p>\n
When I first met the twins<\/p>\n
Who were identical in all ways<\/p>\n
Except gender<\/p>\n
Return to Sender<\/p>\n
Was written on the parcel<\/p>\n
That lay on my wooden table<\/p>\n
It had not left the city<\/p>\n
Which disappointed me<\/p>\n
But at least it was pristine and clean<\/p>\n
The deserts in the area<\/p>\n
Were called Alf and Marie<\/p>\n
After the twins<\/p>\n
One was to the north of the city<\/p>\n
And the other was in the south<\/p>\n
They were quite unremarkable deserts<\/p>\n
Passages of sand and lyricism<\/p>\n
Burnt pale under the scald towers<\/p>\n
That measured their parameters<\/p>\n
Of late I have been feverish<\/p>\n
The illness has a confused history<\/p>\n
And occurs only in Tangier<\/p>\n
I have studied the etiology of my condition<\/p>\n
But have travelled no nearer to completion<\/p>\n
The identical twins arrange my welfare<\/p>\n
But for hours on end I sit listless on a balcony<\/p>\n
That has views to the southern desert<\/p>\n
I often see buses travelling on the dusty roads<\/p>\n
But know that I am hallucinating<\/p>\n
As there are no buses in the desert<\/p>\n
And no deserts in the buses black and white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are no buses in the desert Said Alf There are no deserts in the buses Said Marie I was in Tangier writing poetry When I first met the twins Who were identical in all ways Except gender Return to Sender Was written on the parcel That lay on my wooden table It had not […]<\/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\/7854"}],"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=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}