INTEGRATION

I visit the ugly, local graveyards
to read the names upon the
hideous graves -
the better to know the people I meet
and smile to in the street.

(Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val)

ANIMAL SACRIFICE

It is difficult to avoid
people who sacrifice
animals to sheer greed
(and mere habit).

Haunted,

not hunted,
we are are the only
unnatural predator.

Religion

is the deodorant
overpowering reason.

Housework

is better done in the dark:
it's so much easier
and leaves the day free
for sleep or the tending of plants.

GETTING RECOGNITION

Though dead, Aristarchus 'had to wait'
two thousand years for his proposition
to be endorsed.

The stupidest thing

about The Only Stupid Species
is that, unlike really
successful animals like rats,
cockroaches, spiders
and many other beasts
of true distinction,
we have dread
refuse to eat our dead.

And so The Sixth Extinction.

Virgo:

transparent
and
impenetrable.
Perhaps unbreakable.

I am only a download.

This is only a blog.

Terrorism

bothers governments
more than individuals...

Does God judge

machines ?
If not,
why not ?

Made by humans,

machines are stupid.
We are even more stupid
as we are controlled more and more
by thoughtless machines.

Self-congratulation:

when the last
miserable human
dies, dehydrated
on this dessicated earth
- will he know
or care that
I told you so ?

Justice

is on all men's lips -
except when they
ostentatiously
shit on it.

The Chippewa

have a word for
The Sickness of Long Thinking.

I have a word for
The Sickness of Bad Thinking:
civilisation.

And why should I not

be autistic
when I find myself among
the screaming, dancing dead ?

Utopia:

great to know
it does not
and cannot
exist.

Depression

might be a trick
of consciousness which
we take too seriously.

In the serenity of my alleged despair

I'm old enough
and wise enough
to know that life should not be engendered
much less saved,

He told me I was

'contrary'.
I asked him what the virtue was
in being conventional.

Convenience,
he replied.

In our 'advanced' society

rites have almost disappeared
to be replaced by fragile,
arbitrary rights.

The happy love themselves -

and are invisible.

The lesson of war:

People never learn.
Man is the only stupid species.

God has a terrible defect:

like Stalin, He hates intellect.

Art

should challenge us
- not send our debauched consciences to sleep.

The only people who are not insane

are not human.

Rot is not death

- but life !

Those who are trained

to delve into our lives
are also trained to seem pleasant.

The beauty of careful mending

is also the patience it incorporates.

Marriage

is an early symptom
of senility.