Stuart Miller-Osborne

If reality becomes too much for you Then retreat into your imagination It is a quite comfortable place Where you can even scores Or be as kind as you wish   I have done some terrible things Within the distance of my imagination But at other times I have possessed the gentleness of God I […]

I purchased a beautiful Spanish Lady today A Spanish Lady with a small wooden guitar She dates I believe from the nineteen-sixties A scruffy toy from a souvenir shop in Southern Spain When I met her she was dry dusty and tasted damp I gave her a gentle lavender shower And left her in the […]

I am a dog walker in my spare time And design synagogues In my time that is not spare Today I am walking Herr Pastor’s White Shepherd Its name is Juden die lugen but as my German is very poor I call it Rex or Rosemary for short   I suffer from a serious disease […]

On the 26th of March 1944 a small group of German soldiers Were ambushed by a group of partisans in a forest near Near They were all shot to death and their bodies dumped into a nearby lake The youngest of these German soldiers was twenty-four years old His name was Otto Dann and he […]

Hotel 33 actually has only twenty-eight rooms As five are not available for the use of guests Being store and overflow rooms The hotel gets is name from its distance from the sea Which is exactly thirty-three metres away I stayed there with my Japanese girlfriend in 2004 And again in the late summer of […]

I have lost all my illusions If anybody finds them Please mail them back to me     Outlaw

There is currently a war Taking place in my head I do not recognise either side And no peace talks are planned     Outlaw

Now even on Sundays the beach is deserted  Still we will stare out to sea   This is a line from a Fellini movie I cannot remember its title Yet I had arranged a showing At the Cinema on the Beach   But nobody attended As the five young men had left the town  

Simon did I see you participating in the Boxing Day Swim Yes But you cannot swim and are terrified of water I learnt to swim last summer Do you swim well No So why did you participate in the charity swim I wanted to see Mimsy K in her bikini Why did you not spectate […]

I will always be your lover Frank and Angela were lying on rough blanket in the room Where the old photocopiers came to die There were three of these machines against the far wall Apart from that the room was bare On its only shelf there were three bottles of powder half full And a […]