Life is

illusion of matter
and truth is
illusion of speech.

Racial Identity

Never having known
my father
I'm a quarter of
whatever
you think you are.

A good cook

is one who can make
a delicious meal
from the detritus in your fridge.

after Rumi

O tongue, you are a chattering disease -
and all our selves are withered worms
curled up on dying trees!

Is it just coincidence

that so much
'great art'
comes from so much
unpleasantness ?

Recessional

The richest peoples in the world -
with running hot water,
cars, unlimited food and drink
- actually think they are poor,
as they shower their infantilised
offspring with expensive junk.

Pathos :

the core of every crime.

The first property

was language,
and with it we exterminated
the Neanderthals.

Now the best property
is the English language,
whose native speakers
are the most depressed
in all the world.

Who would not be wiser

if he had a frugaliser ?

I love the smells

that other people hate :
chrysanthemums, my armpits,
cattle, horses, durian fruit,
dungheaps and wet dogs,
fresh tar, my socks, decaying logs...

Evolution : the cost

We plunder the planet
raging for what we don't know
we have lost.

The future

isn't just already past
but almost extinct!

'Conceptual art'

displays silly
concepts and
little talent.

CULL

is the word
that best sums us up.

Scientia

est potentia
est dementia.

Exquisite irony

Some of the Victorian asylums
near London have been converted
into "gated communities".

Error #58, Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864

"No other forces will be recognised but those which reside in matter,
and all the rectitude and excellence of morality will be directed towards
the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means,
and the mere gratification of pleasure."

- Pius IX, Pontifex Maximus

'Pygmy' children, seven years old,

male and female,
could - and still can -
feed and look after themselves
in the forest without the help
of the band.

'Civilised' children of similar
age can do little more than play
infantile games
and demand, demand, demand.

The Christian missionaries

(we don't say fundamentalists)
made and make
all the almost-naked wear
unflattering clothes.

The Islamic missionaries
(whom we call fundamentalists)
make clothed women cover themselves
with even garb that is even less flattering.

Monotheisms mean clothes.

Myxomatosis :

how conveniently
we have forgotten
the continuing horror.

Perhaps

the greatest achievement is
stillness.

Global Warming

People of goodwill have more & more enemies

Capitalism hates goodwill
- unless it can be marketed
like Christmas.

No fears where no fence runs

The only human artefact
visible from outer space
is the Great Wall of China.

The forests have gone,
the seas are sick,
the earth is a ravaged vagina
crawling with walls.
Such pettiness, and such insanity!
Fences and walls define humanity.

Vasectomy:

the kindest cut,
the kindest destiny.

Chairs have four legs

because they were invented
by dogs
for dogs.

It's not intelligence

nor even cunning
that has conquered the world
and raised city
after horrible city -

but our utter, our terrible
lack of pity.

If even a loud pop-singer can get it right...

'The world is a mesmerising mess
and humans are mesmerising messes.'

- Morrissey

Sexual jealousy

is just a kind of
disrespect.

In the Valley of the Shadow

a life-style
is no
way of life.

In the Land of the Raging Loonies

last week, parents were prevented
from escorting other parents' children
to a school play, until they were vetted
for pædophilia and 'criminality'.

At the same time, it was seriously asserted
that an intinerant, mendicant preacher,
one Jesus from Galilee, visited Cornwall
around 2,000 years ago, before he was 30.

Cells

commit suicide
to make us what we are:
the only animal
capable of suicide.

Innocence

is sensibility
not ignorance.

The revelation

of the world
is wildness.

'Original Sin'

can only be
language -
the one thing
no scripture
can own up to.

Even Sadhus

up to their necks
in sand
are
(and Jesus on the cross was,
like Solomon in all
his glory)
pastures
and toilets
for skin-mites.

Chairs

were invented
because floors
were so filthy.

Silent intelligence.

Wordless wisdom.

How unevolved we are
and will remain till our extinction!

Status

When we're all
in the shit,
depth seems
very important.

Time

is not
history.

Extreme Unction

We can't stop
gibbering
scribbling
our way
to extinction.

Fears

are memories
and projections
of other fears.

'Land of the Free'

In many suburban areas
of the USA
it is prohibited
to hang washing out to dry.

Nothing

is everywhere
and behind each
something

And nowhere to go
is desperate
infinity

For the fortunate

life is just a bar-code.
For the desperate
it is a chasm.

'The land of the free'

In the United States
there is (on average) one hospital
for every 55,000 people
and one prison for every
62,000 people.

Less than 5% of the world's population
locks up more than 25% of the world's prisoners.
In The World's Greatest Democracy
poverty is a crime.

'The home of the brave'

The United States of
America spend more on
"defense"
than Russia, China, Britain and France combined.

How soon dictatorship ?
The American Dream
is smoke and mirrors
obscuring the Nightmare
of the Poor and the Weak.

To love solitude

is to know happiness.
Very few people
are interested
in happiness.

Sex can be

much better on your own
since nothing that you do
is false.

Once a year

on the eleventh hour
of the eleventh day
of the eleventh month
hypocrisy plays dumb.

Communications

are the maggots -
and the corpse is
Man.

This is the story

of Good and Evil:
Man is God
and Life's the Devil.

Conformity

is fake morality,
and real corruption
is not financial
but moral.

'Noli me tangere'

is the war-cry of the rich.

September 11, 2001

Perhaps the worst
of the 'Western Values'
is the refusal to cope
with hate.

Life is a spell

that the planet
is under.

The 'Work Ethic'

is greedspeak for
self-advancement
which is greedspeak
for greed.

The intellect

is a wonderful
instrument
but a lousy
worker.

Belief and delusion

are incestuous twins.

I should be glad

that they're stopping
the Earth
so that I can get off!

Hell's Anthem

'Money, money, money!'

When you look

for disappointment
you are rarely
disappointed...

The Romans

(it is said) were
mainly vegetarian.

(It will take some time
for the implications
to sink in.)

Politicians

are false people
who make a career
out of parading
their sincerity.

The falsest people

are those who don't even know
they are false

while the falseness seeps out
and seeps out...

(I have always connected falseness
with clean fingernails.)

Money makes us all mean

But it's better for our integrity
to be mean to ourselves
than to others.

Let us praise al-Qaïda

for putting their hatred
and anger out in the open -
where as we
corrupt Westerners
make the crass error
of hiding real feelings
in sound-bites. We spew
out insanities such as
War against Drugs, and
The Sanctity of Human Life, and
War against Terror.

Copernicus, Darwin, Freud

The earth is not the centre of the universe.
Mankind is not the summit of evolution.
The ego is a petty and
deranged dictator.

Time

is an invention to persuade us
that things happen consecutively
and not all at once in a muddle.

When you think people are laughing,

often they are weeping.
When you think people are weeping,
the worst of them are laughing.

Weeping is better than words.

The rich

won't make you richer
but will rob you of your poverty.

Love is also

a kind of greed

But if you love yourself
you will be too loving
to bother others for love
or sex

Greed

is the opposite of curiosity.
Life is such a deadening experience!

The further back you look

the farther forward you can see.

The eternal ocean

has offered you everything you know -
and you fear death!

The tourist requires.

The visitor
like the pilgrim
is grateful.

An open mind

- an open prison.

(If you open it too much
your brain might fall out!)

The Real World

is where few people live.
They call it wilderness
and blasphemy.

The Giant Sloth

What's so terrible
about dying out ?

To dogs we are like gods.

God is a vivisectionist
and we are his
would-be resurrectionists.

Everyone denies

that they wish
they had never been born.

But we all
compulsively tell lies.

Malheur

The only afflicted species
afflicts almost every other.

The most afflicted members
kindly kill themselves.

Overcoming consciousness

Against Nietzsche's
injunction to become
what you are
must be set Rumi's
observation that
your life is not your own.

The unknown

is much less frightening
than the known.

Civilisation

is unnatural selection,
and evil
is the autistic
human will.

That means and methods

may not be justified
by ends and goals
is hardly controversial.

Much more radical
and more important
is the understanding
that ends might be justified
only by the means employed.

Elites

aren't what they used to be.
The best things in life
are often broken.
Or never happened.

Work Ethic

People who lack it
should get a
Disability Allowance.
But the strivers and achievers
wouldn't like that.
The Work Ethic is not
an ethic at all - but a means to an end:
riches, power, glory,
control of the planet until
it turns to poison and desert
beneath our hide-shod feet
before our unseeing eyes.

Metaxu

Two solitary prisoners
separated by a wall
tap pointless messages.

Life is not a dream :

in dreams
we don't tell lies.

My fellow-blogger

came to THE END.
He struggled to formulate
coherent and cogent observations.
He sent them into the world
and they fell down a hole.

He struggled through childhood.
He became an adult.
He slowly unlearned all that
he'd been told and taught.
He struggled to understand
what is going on
and off.
Then came to the conclusion
that life isn't worth living,
anyway.
But on he struggles
silently.

Enlightenment

is like
suicide

there are no
Bodhisattvas

For many women

religion seems to be
the heart of a heartless world

while for men
it is often a handy excuse
to be heartless.

Liberty

grovelling
for a job

Spirituality is purposeless,

and thus true to itself.
Religion is teleological,
purposive, a means to an end
- and thus it is fundamentally
non-spiritual.

If you think

that death is a terrible prospect,
you've obviously never died.

The Dawkins Project

Tough on God.
Tough on the
causes of God.

Civilisation

It should be no surprise

that after the demise
of grotesque, aggressive
dinosaurs (e.g. T-Rex)
top-end abominids
should be grotesque,
aggressive hominids -
to wit: H. 'sapiens'.

A tombstone

is attachment
petrified.

The Business Prayer *

Our Business which art Divine,
Hallowed by Thy Name.
Monopoly come;
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in thy Desire.
Give us this day our daily job.
And punish us for our debts,
as we punish our debtors.
And lead us not into unproductivity,
but deliver us from all control -
For thine is Monopoly,
the Power and the Glory...

* (inspired by Black Redstart)

To seem to justify

their own existence,
people have children
who have children,
dynasti-exponentially
with insane persistence.

The hair around my heart

was always grey.

Since yesterday

we have colluded
in wiping out
another hundred
species.

It

is not the pearl
that is the essence
but the grit.

If all mankind

is the enemy,
human friends
are very dangerous.

Capitalism's Golden Mean

lies somewhere between
meanness and Midas.

The arrogance of stupidity

The stupidity of arrogance
The futility of communication
The communication of futility

Civilisation

So many times :

Man's time
Noman's time
Sidereal time
Utmost
eternity
And the time it takes
to turn a child
into a producing
and consuming
ghost.

Weakness

rules.

Beware of men who weep

- they are only getting in touch with
their inner infant.

We are the gap

and the gasp
between chaos theory
and chaos.

Dogs and donkeys

are divine.
But I worship
entropy.

Every life

has a bloody lining.

(blog lost by Blogger)

To be silly

is so much better
than to be rude
- especially to animals.

Meat-eaters

who are repelled
by bullfights
have never been to
a slaughterhouse.

Civilisation

1914

While Danish children
were reading
Hans Christian Andersen
German children
were reading
the Brothers Grimm...

The wide blue-grey deep.

Liberation of having
nothing to hope for.

'With his tail between his legs'

is not animals' affliction
but man's.

Isn't it sad ?

The human curse:
we take something good,
demean, destroy it;
we take something bad
and make it worse.

Capitalist shit :

new today
obsolete tomorrow

from the Rubâi'yât of Omar Khayyâm

---------------------------------------------------------(only twits twitter)

Strange people

- who would rather give
to institutions
than to people...

One never forgets

how to ride a bicycle.
But it is too easy to forget
how to weep.

Life

is a death-camp
of distraction.

The function of culture

is not to enlighten,
but to particularise

thus ensuring
that few realise
how the grinding systems work.

Evolution

was also
a free market
until we decided
that we were
Masters of the Universe

of greed

The unspeakable truth

about civilisation
is that commerce
makes victims
of us all.

Before photography

we remembered
people's faces.
Now we remember
only graven images.

The motto of Capitalism.

We are the only species

whose members
cannot size up each other
on sight or smell.

Is this intelligence ?

Unpleasant words

make unpleasant people:

- eradicate
...abnormal
...traitor
...exterminate
...paternity
...troubleshoot
...money
...right
...patriotism
...acquire

and a thousand others.

To the grand collections

of the grandiose
Victoria and Albert Museum
in London, Queen Victoria
donated only a Raphael cartoon.

But more recently,
that august institution acquired
a single nether piece
of that Queen's
underwear.

Life is like

Tripes à la mode de Caen*.
If you're lucky, you love it.
If not, you have to decide to
take what you're given,
pretend that it is something else,
or get rid of it discreetly.

*Cold pickled tripe in disgusting jelly

The world around me

speaks
but I hear only
human noise.

The art best cultivated

is the art of waiting
for the art of being still

or for the strength of clay
that can resist the potter's will.

(Homage to Omar Khayyám)

The 'lily'

of the Song of Solomon
was the Lotus, symbol of purity
and immortality (genus Nelumbo).
Its nearest living relative
is, suprisingly, the plane-tree.
A red-flowered lotus has recently
been germinated from a seed
3,000 years old, found in an
archaeological dig near Tokyo.

Ten Reasons why the British* are the Living Dead of Europe:

1. they live in a bubble of obsession with the two World Wars

2. they are in love with their grotesque ideas of Germany and Germans (and keep publishing books about Hitler, Nazism and the Third Reich - but not about Mussolini, Stalin, Franco etc.)

3. they hate the European Union because it was the post-war peace-child of Germany, Benelux and France, founded - without England's permission - to guarantee no more wars in Europe

4. they are still in the mind-set of the Hundred Years War and the Napoleonic Wars
against France, wallowing in a myth of an 'Island Race', though they are of Franco-Germanic origin with a touch of Celt even less than the Irish and rather less than the French.

5. they refuse to believe that their genocidal empire was evil in any way

6. they share a language with the USA and, since the withering of its empire, are always trying desperately to share America's power

7. they do not know how to enjoy themselves pleasantly abroad

8. together with the Irish, they have become the most discourteous, most off-hand, unwelcoming and peremptory people in the Northern Hemisphere

9. they regard all other languages and literatures as inferior

10. they think that morality resides in lucrative hypocrisy, which is why the French have for long described them as 'perfidious'.

*They invented the weasel-word 'British' along with the pompous 'United Kingdom',
and, not suprisingly, have an Identity Problem nearly as great as that of the Northern Irish.

Yesterday

the last 'British' soldier-survivor of World War One
was given a splendid funeral. Thousands lined
the route to the grave, and they appear on the front page
of today's newspapers.
Hundreds of thousands died in World War One:
cannon-fodder, only some of them 'British'
(including Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Manx).

The 'British' never get to hear about the French, whose countryside
was utterly destroyed, and a whole generation of whose males
were wiped out from Metz to Biarritz and Marseille to Dunkerque.

The crippling war-reparations that Germany
had to pay France in the 1920s went, largely, to fill in the trenches
and the craters, bury bits of corpses,
and to re-establish the local populations and
their farms, their livestock, and their copses.
Now you would almost imagine rural Picardy
had always been serene and lush.

The 'British' do not want to hear about the French who defended them
(and France) in World War One,
nor about the million Russians who died in World War Two
and kept the Germans from invading England.
Both France and Russia suffered terribly in both World Wars,
but it is the 'British' who keep droning on about heroes and courage
in two hecatombs for which they were
in great part responsible.
There were also Turks and Austrians and Czechs, Hungarians,
Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians and Lesser Subjects of the Evil British Empire
including many Irish and some Africans - and, last, but certainly
not least, envied Americans (many of them black).

Then there were the thinkers, the conscientious objectors, those
who refused to be deceived into patriotism, who were shot
as traitors because they rightly thought the war was wrong.

Who bothers to mention the tens of thousands of handsome horses
who were killed all over Europe ?

Coming up to date:
we have heard little about the tens of thousands of Iraqis
shot or otherwise murdered after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq
under false pretences - which didn't fool the French or anyone else.
We hear almost nothing about the thousands of Afghans
shot and blown up in yet another British Military Adventure.

And it is still criminal in the British Isles to help
a helpless friend who wants to die.

Urban passers-by

notice hardly anything
that passes by.
This is being civilised.

For that carton of yogurt you've just thrown away

cattle had to be bred
for a few thousand years
of war and rapine

and the cows inseminated
and fed chemical supplements
and their calves removed
while the mothers grieved
and moaned for many days
and were milked by incredible machine
until they were too old
and were 'recycled'.

the milk was taken by a tanker
to a factory, and checked
and separated from its cream
and superheated and processed
and put into silly plastic cartons by machine
and packed into boxes and sent out
to supermarkets where you bought a pack
of six and forgot about them in the fridge.

This 'Natural Product' went first into a dumpster
and then a dumping vehicle
and then a landfill Gehenna...
Our species is a monster.

Saints and Traitors

The difference between a traitor and a saint
is that a traitor is considered to belong
beforehand
while a saint belongs afterwards.

There is very little difference
between a traitor and a trader.

Because happiness is not

a feeling
but a state,
those few that are happy
may not be aware of it.

Dogs do not deceive.

We beat them,
treat them as living furniture.
Some eat them.
We, who live by malice
aforethought, think
they are inferior.

We think that beating
is superior behaviour.

(posted on the Feast Day of
St.Basil-Fool-for-Christ)

God, the Divine Criminal,

who runs a gulag in the sky
where there are no turds,

and justifies the criminality of Man,
is a distant being, composed of words.

But the Devil has a tendency
to live next-door.
Stupidity is a condition
that makes friends with fear.

Civilisations,

obsessed with produce
produce only
mass-destruction.

Cultures
obsessed with achievement
achieve only
mass-destruction.

Employment

is chains
implanted
in brains.

Job-free of the world,
unite!

Cities are difficult.

People are
antibiotic.

'Nature abhors a vacuum'

so we abhor Nature
and love abhorrence...

Concepts I don't understand that begin with M

Money
Marriage
Monogamy
Mass-entertainment
Mbition
Mployment

Religion

is a strange kind of
sewer
containing a great deal of
blasphemy.

Big Nations

are male
and need
to be screwed.

Dawkins' mistake

is to believe in
progress
which is a sillier
concept than
god(s).

Since we ate up

the Neanderthals
we're unhappy about
cannibals

and insatiable.

The world is the cradle

of death -
but death's appetite
for humans is
unnaturally small.

Slaves of Nevermore

Humans are the only animals
obsessed
with their mortality.
And humans are the only animals
so unpleasantly intelligent
that they had to invent
constantly re-invent
morality.

GSOH

I am only as good
as my sense of humour.

How tragic it is
that humans are
humourless.

Winning

is childish.
The most childish
win.

Anniversary

I have never had
and never will have
a television set.
So I did not see
the First Men
Walking on the Moon
forty years ago.

I was surely not
the only one
to murmur
"So what ?"
when I heard it
on the radio ?

This planet

is an amazing
conversation
which you and I
are stifling
to a sigh.

'Jouir'

is French for 'to rejoice'.
The difference between
Anglo and Franco
(Lewis and Louis)
is encapsulated
by the respective words
for 'ejaculated':
come, and joui.

Dog

is
love:

the good faith
of ignorance.

Love

is not less than loyalty.
The rest is mere emotion.

There may be hope

- but not for us.

All our purposes

are diminutive.

Rather than being the only

moral mammal,
I suspect that humans are
the least moral mammal.

Our 'superiority' inheres
in our immorality.

Superhumans

prefer
dogs.

The human

is an animal which invents
narratives, now called myth,
religion, fact, understanding,
science etc.

What we call soul is just
an aptitude for narrative.

This is what makes us mad,
bad and dangerous to know
- especially if you're a wolf.

And beyond the narrative of the
Sixth Extinction, bacteria
are Lords of Creation

who lived before the First Extinction.

'A monk

shall think of himself
as evil and worthless.'
- The Rule of St Benedict

In democracy's

escalating fraud
the rich extract
and the poor
far, far away
expire:
half a million every day

while human population
increases exponentially.

How wrong

that people
would rather be right
than be understanding.

The cleverest people

are those clever people who
can make the stupid
less stupid.

If there have ever been any

for stupidity constantly
cleverly
re-invents itself.

Civilised

people will kill
for any reason
- except compassion.

Art is not honest

but easily seduces us
to believe that
we are.

The self

is a machine
for telling half-convincing
stories
to consciousness.

People

(especially the French)
eat fish
like there's no tomorrow

- for the fish.

Sanity

(in its complexity)
is much more inexplicable
than madness
in its simplicity.

SPAM FROM CHINA

Update your penis.
Replay your feels.

The first miracle

is birth
or breaking out of the egg.
The second miracle
is male erection
especially a mule's.
The last miracle is
death.

Add worship
to miracle
and you get
deceit everlasting.

Conformity

is a sad substitute
for personality.

I don't find

that my socks smell worse
on the twentieth day of wearing
than they did on the first.

MONEY

You can make a market
out of anything:
love, justice, beauty, tragedy,
faith, hope and charity.

Over half of the world's water

is squandered
by a single species.

If I have said it before

I really do not care:
civilisation, it seems to me,
is just a dancing bear.

Indian Classical Music :

the transcendental
fulcrum
between the ephemeral
and the
ineffable.

Meat bleeds

the unsayable
unsaid.

Religion :

just the politics
and economics
of superstition.

It is harrowing

how people leave
forced pot-plants
to die in graveyards.

Agapé and Eros :

reliable
and
unreliable.

The village knows

when I get up
because my shutters
squeak.

Capitalism

is a system wherein those who are active
constantly try to cheat each other
and those who are passive.

If this really is the least-bad system we can devise,
we are less intelligent than dogs or rabbits.

In the politics of Rights

the loudest and richest
always win.

When you think about it,

it's a little sad to enjoy
something more
when you share it
with another.

Homo Sapiens:

Great intelligence.
Little empathy.

The creativity

of appreciating creativity
is uncreatively
unappreciated.

Just how 'evolved'

and superior
is our abuse
of our 'superiority' to Nature ?

Surely not.

Is the constant noise
of people talking
any more
than noise ?

Loneliness

is brought by words
and taught by language.

Because humans live

like humans
inhumanely,
animals can't live
as animals.

Stupidity

constantly
re-invents
itself

calling itself
intelligence.

Yesterday

- was I the only person in the world
eating cherries, drinking Gaillac
while listening to Schnittke's
3rd quartet ?

The last people

that a true poet wants to meet
are other poets - whether true or false;
which is why so few true poets
go to poetry festivals.

God and Satan

- a gay marriage
made in Heaven ?

Perhaps the worst

thing that can befall a writer
is to be published.

There are simply not enough

eccentrics.

In every human

prance and prowl
the shadows of our shame.

Many people are born

zombis
Some soon turn into
zombis
And most have
zombihood
forced upon them.

Between the Propertied

and the Poor in Spirit
there is little space.

Surveillance

Above, beyond the queue
the monitor
displaying every aisle
and every stand
within the store, revealing
all except the slight
shoplifter's sleight-of-hand.

A religion,

culture, or civilisation
that cannot cope with suicide
is fundamentally defective.

Friendship

is swapping credit-cards.
Love
if not forever
is just infatuation.

Drowning

Real men drink piss
Real men don't shave
Real men do kiss
Real men don't wave

The baby

is usually more toxic
than the bathwater.

Good Sex

Physically wonderful
emotional lie

The most pernicious chains

are chains of command.

Time goes forward.

Memory goes backward.
In the Beginning
we were stories.
In the End
we are oblivion.

French 'cuisine'

- a sadistic
drag-queen.

Why do human babies cry ?

Is it because
life is such an outrageous
imposition ?
Or is it because
human consciousness
is a kind of
continual drowning ?

Having turned

cornucopia
to
pharmacopœia,
we
are now thoroughly
poisoning
the sea.

Who is dead

and who is alive
is sometimes a matter
of opinion.

There is nothing to understand

because
there is
no
meaning.

The most wonderful

word I know
is
i n t e r i m .

The best thing in life

is that it ends.
The worst thing in life
might be how it ends.

Knowledge

ploughs the fertile
soil of prejudice.

Self-delusion
feels really good.

Prizegiving

"...and the winner
of The Earth is...
Entropy Inc."

Mass individualism

produces tax-payers
transcended, transfixed
by the gorgeous miracle
of their dull personalities.

When the world's controlled

by dinosaurs
the ending is
predictable.

A wet Saturday

I'm considering the rules
of Haiku Tennis.

It never occurred to me before

that sex
for most people
is some sort of
validation.

Yet this might have been
part of the soft, rich
tapestry of feelings I had
on those few occasions
when intimacy
was flawless,
wonderful.

How sad

it is that intellect
is unconvivial.

It is so easy for evil

to make good
look silly.

The obscenity of lawns

As the world heats up
we'll pour more water on our lawns,
then burn up petroleum to cut them.
And we think we're rational.

Each of us

is Allah's
carpet-flaw.


Version for Muslims:

Each of us
is al-Mumit's
carpet-flaw.

Ignorance

is nine-
tenths of
the law.

The only vacuum

in the cosmos
is the space
between people.

The rest is
connectivity.

'Empowerment'

is merely an easier
kind of
enslavement.

People who miss people

really miss
themselves.

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.

Belittling a bitterly failed infatuation:

you despise yourself
for having fallen into it -
but you did not fall:
you jumped for joy.
And now you ken
that you would be no wiser now
if you had not been hopeful then.

Eugene O'Neill

(a great American playwright)
wrote:
"Man is born broken
and lives by mending."
But the opposite is more true:
we are born as whole as we can be
and are systematically dismantled.

Machismo for the English :

kicking
Alan Bennett
in the balls.

What will eradicate us

and save what is left
of the planet
will not be a
wild virus -
but a tame one.

The Hunting Instinct

and the Orgasmic Imperative
may explain why men
pursue to the bitter end.

Innocence

is sensibility -
not ignorance.

The café of Lost Innocence

is beside
the nursery-school.

It's easier

to be a Nobody
than a Somebody.
And when we're dead
we're all nobodies.

On the postcard

I wrote:
Be patient - things
will turn out OK.

But to whom
shall I address it ?

The dry clay ?

You are probably

a nothing
and a nobody like me,
out at sea.

I am because
you are
and I don't
know who
you are.

It is a blessing

to gain the hate
of the hateful

who are legion.

I cannot promote myself

because I am both more
and less than self.

Life is too short

to worry about life
being too short.

Too many good things

happen to
bad people.

The most attainable happiness

is to be happy
not to be happy.

Fear of Falling

Great is my
danger of
being pushed into
a category.

The world is my walrus

(and no Carpenter)
- chaosmotic.

A Poet

The unappreciated
unremembered
stench of honesty
seeped from his pen.

In the Beginning

was no word.
For words
are outcry
of absence.

Sick civilisation

praises every talent
except
the talent to be harmless.

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Lophophora

On planet Bed
I am a pre-Columbian
flat-earther.

Education

acts on the mind of a child
as a virus does
to a computer.

Do they not know

that a man's soul
is in his beard -
his visiopilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?

Self-delusion

feels
really
good

Do they not know

that a woman's soul
is in her armpit -
her axillipilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?

Wholesome Exuberance

At Trimalchio's Feast
a phallic pudding
ejaculated saffron custard
when caressed.

Civilisation seems to be

the ever-increasing micro-management
of everybody's lives.

On the Planet of the Hypocrites

the News King
pulls the strings
of kings

The Secret of Success

is to want very little.

Santa Claus

does not exist.
He has better things to do.

Happy folk

are rather rare
because folk think that there
are better ways to be.

After a while

romantic rendezvous
become little more than
low-grade job-interviews.

There are few things more despicable
than self-promotion.

The problem with being happy

is that you enjoy your own company
too much for your own bad.

Hyperbole

How can one be
"more than welcome" ?

Loss of Credit

Feeling the pinch,
some compassionate
people in Michigan
have dumped their dogs
for the vivisectors
of Ann Arbor to sweep up.

Evil celebrates itself

while good coughs nervously
and wrings its hands.

Money

was not invented
to do good.

The Consumer Society :

mean glories,
spangled wretchedness
and infantile behaviour.

Their 'crimes against humanity'

are nothing compared with
our crimes against nature

every day.

Humanity :

so many skills -
so much inanity.

Between

the Garden of Eden
and climatic catastrophe :
the steel jaws of human vanity.

Between
the darkness of the womb
and the silence of the tomb :
too much light, too much noise,
and the destruction of boys.

'Que estranha

forma de vida!'
So many species
at the end of their tether.

Philosophy

is distraction
from distraction
by distraction.

Ouroboros whispers

There aren't enough zeros.

Cain's Law

rules the world
Especially Israel
and Burma

After Prometheus

- was the most hubristic
event in human history
'The Enlightenment' ?

Respectability

is the universal
and worst
corruption.

What for you is squalid and nasty

might be a high point of my life.

Hungry ghosts,

we are all equal
in our emptiness.
Life is a matter
of making nothing
elegant.

What the hungry ghosts call

life
is merely virtual
for the very few who
live.

Desire leads to

desire
to desire
to desire:
the downward steps to
'liberation'.

Zen is

what you're sure
it's not.

Despite

everything

Life is

piles of trivialities
until the last supper
intravenously

way beyond hope.

Of course there were nice Nazis.

I have met
many of their kind.

In the end

everything is food
and death.

Happiness comes

not when the unfillable hole is blocked
but when the wound is healed by licking.

Hours, minutes,

employment, leisure:
the butchery of time.

Wolves howl

in many voices.
Humans
howl in one.

In the tunnel

of black and white
the fools believe
they are white.

On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, peasant-poet

The man of independent mind
dares to be poor -
a dog's a god for all that.

If love

is not
eternal
it is
ego.

Survival of the Fittest

If you equate fitness
with survival
then the fittest
are those who survive.

This is a tautology
not biology.

Something I didn't want to know...

Mosquitoes may have killed
more people
than people have.

The core of confidence

is humility.

Or, to put it another way,
true confidence is humble.

In the battle

between waving
and drowning
I try to be
a piece of seaweed.

There are idle rich

and idle poor -
but no idle beggars.

What's so wrong with idleness ?

Poetry is not

'the best words in the best order',
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.

A poem's a small echo

heard through deadly noise.

The dirge of the dildo :

there's never a real person
at the other end.

In the toilet of the restaurant

at the end of the universe
time is sick.

On 'Bob Dylan'

In music
the banal can be sublime.
In poetry the banal
is merely noise.

Democracies can be worse than dictatorships.

The Zionist Dream
lies mindless in Gaza.

The suppression of kindness

is a function of
'progress'.

In my medieval village

I walked the 600 metres
to the cinema, and watched
CHE (part 1), which, at a cost
of $60 million, gave me a mean
spectacle of men giving orders to
and murdering each other.

The most addictive videogame is

sex.

Optimism

is never more than
shallow.

A head in Gaza

O Joy! Another day

closer to the grave
or the Mass Grave!

Marriage

is the first sign of dementia.

Most human activity is needless -

- except the prevention of human activity.

The finest human achievement

is the undoing of human achievement.
The best of man is his ruins.

to the British Prime Minister,

A POEM WHICH CONTRAVENES
THE TERRORISM ACT

Hardworking, family man
doesn't know
pride from remorse.

Hardworking, family man
needs a bomb
up his arse.

Bravery is everywhere

- except in humans.
Compared with us
the very stones are brave.

Is life

death masturbating ?