Sunday, 31 August 2008

The futility of communication

The communication of mendacity

Saturday, 30 August 2008

The rich patterns of our lives :

warp of hypocrisy
weft of cowardice

Friday, 29 August 2008

Thursday, 28 August 2008

Culture:

the Police Commissioner
to incarcerate the living
for being dead.

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Inside Ikea

is a freshly
butchered calf.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Apart from our turds

(which dung-beetles like)
and our corpses
(which vultures value)
and our blood
(which nourishes leeches)
and our bones
(which dogs love to bury)
the only good thing that humans produce
(and which few other animals appreciate
is music.

Monday, 25 August 2008

Eluctable

modality of nothingness
swallowed by the shouting
unheard past

Sunday, 24 August 2008

Grace

is stone, fur, fruit
catastrophe.
God is disease
of idea.

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Life is

the cheapest thing on the planet.

Friday, 22 August 2008

Some of the homeless

carry a brick around with them
to show that they once
had a house.

Thursday, 21 August 2008

The Olympic Games:

the conquest of intelligence
by will.

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Religion

is Jihad
against sanity.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

All the words

ever spoken
shouted
whispered
and written
will come to nothing.

Monday, 18 August 2008

Original Sin

is taking yourself
seriously.

Sunday, 17 August 2008

Terrorism

corrupts terrorists
just as consumption
corrupts consumers.

Saturday, 16 August 2008

God is praised,

described, interpreted, denied
upon the pulp of trees.
And God is a tree.

Friday, 15 August 2008

Few man-made things

are as wonderful to look at
as a fire.

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

The most intelligent

being on the planet
uses his intelligence in unintelligent ways
and wipes out almost everything -
including (at last) himself:
another evolutionary error.
So,
'intelligence' is just a fancy word
for 'pathological cunning'.

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Purple

things are often splendid.

Monday, 11 August 2008

Kissing

was considered sinful
in medieval Europe.
But it is now
unacceptable to be
a hermit.

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Civilisation

is the manipulation
of desire.

Saturday, 9 August 2008

The most important ingredient

in the recipe for dinner
is someone to share it with.

Friday, 8 August 2008

In love and war

everything's unfair.
And life's
a knife
in dying air.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

LOYALTY

Because we invented it,
time has been too long
on our side.

Because we are
time's product,
we have passed our sell-by date.

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Stupidity

is much more elaborate
than wisdom.

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Looking forward

to death - to non-being
is a kind of paradox.
Mortality rocks.

Monday, 4 August 2008

During the Black Death

the principal scapegoats
were Lepers and Jews.
The Gypsies had not then arrived.

Sunday, 3 August 2008

Dissidents

are just the few and only people
who dare - or bother - to think
outside the corral of conformity.

Saturday, 2 August 2008

War

is peace on the rampage.

Friday, 1 August 2008

First

can be worst.