{"id":9910,"date":"2022-02-12T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2022-02-12T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T11:40:27","slug":"night-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/night-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the dream I had been employed<\/p>\n<p>To take a naked census of vehicles<\/p>\n<p>Using the southern motorways<\/p>\n<p>I thought this to be a poor idea<\/p>\n<p>As I considered that it would cause accidents<\/p>\n<p>But then I found myself naked in a field<\/p>\n<p>With two men and two women<\/p>\n<p>A sixth person whose gender<\/p>\n<p>I could not determine was sitting in a wheelchair<\/p>\n<p>On a motorway bridge some distance away<\/p>\n<p>I had been invited to the plateau<\/p>\n<p>But had declined as my dream comrades<\/p>\n<p>Had not been invited<\/p>\n<p>I have never kissed Voltaire<\/p>\n<p>I said as I was handed a calculator<\/p>\n<p>By a passing bee q bee<\/p>\n<p>We were positioned by a slip road<\/p>\n<p>And were male female male female<\/p>\n<p>My census partner came from the east of the country<\/p>\n<p>And spoke quietly almost disguising her rural accent<\/p>\n<p>We were hooted by a number of lorries and vans<\/p>\n<p>But that was all as most considered it to be a poor publicity stunt<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a naked census of traffic using the new motorways<\/p>\n<p>I had previously landed a flying saucer on the hard shoulder<\/p>\n<p>Which I thought would interest the drivers more than our nudity<\/p>\n<p>The proved to be a masterstroke as it attracted much attention<\/p>\n<p>And we were able to hide behind a large coca cola hoarding<\/p>\n<p>Where we continued to count the vehicles passing in both directions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>DP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dream I had been employed To take a naked census of vehicles Using the southern motorways I thought this to be a poor idea As I considered that it would cause accidents But then I found myself naked in a field With two men and two women A sixth person whose gender I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9914,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions\/9914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}