Fashion

is for the styleless
as conformity
is for the mindless.

Tourism kills

many times more people
than non-governmental
terrorism
The terror is
in
the tourism.

Progress

should be measured by
the diminution of the self
not the diminution
of the world.

The culture of capitalism

is the decoration
of greed.

Aftershave

smells
of the slave.

When doctors start

to tell us that
employment is bad for us
I'll have faith in doctors.

How mediocre

to have been born
'in wedlock'

forever shackled
by legality.

Hypocrites

love hypocrites.
Arse*-lickers
spit shit.

*American: ass

Deep down

most of us
are shallow graves.

The rain of error

The reign of terror
The terrifying brain

The cuckoo in the dodo's nest
will never be the same again.

Puritanism

is the most enduring
and most effective
terrorism.

Illusions

aren't necessarily bad
- except when they're not yours.

My Ego

like a Ming vase,
delicate
hideous.
Come help me smash it.

(a homage to William Sorlien)

The personal

is the political
only when the personal
is just for show.

If you're thinking

that you don't
fit -
remember:
families are just
blood, and sperm
and eggs
and shit.

Discomfort

can too easily come
out of comfort.

The fraudulent

hate the transparent

like the rich hate
the poor.

Médecins Sans Frontières

In twenty years' time
or less, the kids you saved in Africa
will be trying to tunnel under
or storm the high walls of Europe,
and will perish in the attempt.

From the Book of True Humility

Limitations
are more inspiring
than expectations.

Not the cock, nor the tongue -

but the eye
is the most dangerous member.
Can blind men rape ?

Cells commit suicide

to make us what we are
(the only animal capable of suicide).

Gloss on lines by William Blake

Every afternoon and night and morn
millions to dreadful humanness are born.
Every morn and afternoon and night
few are born to sheer delight.

In the Churches

candles pray,
and, praying,
waste away.

There are hundreds of millions

of dead people walking,
dead people ceaselessly talking,
under the clouds, under the sun,
dead to the world,
to awareness -
are you one ?

Sex contributes

to fulfilment
as hiccups
contribute
to digestion.

War is declaration of love,

and love of war:
with language anything
is possible,
impossible.

Today's dinosaurs

are nation-states
sinking towards the
Sixth Extinction.

I do not see how

people who abuse children
are worse, in the Scheme of Things,
than those who abuse other animals,

nor why those who abuse animals
are worse than those who torture plants.