Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Tuesday 5 November 2024

Marlon James, celebrated author,

(on BBC Radio 4's 'Bookclub') said:

"I have noticed when I read [about] sex
 even in detail, how people really seem
not to enjoy it."

So many millions touched only with violence.
They cannot imagine being
touched with kindness
rather than brutality.
Sex so frequently is a sordid Calvary.


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Monday 4 November 2024

Good Days.

Collecting the good days
should bring long-lasting pleasure
similar to collecting plants.

But days erase each other
and get lost in the deep
dark-webby cupboard
of my memory.

 

Voting:

when being passive

is dressed up to seem active.

Like praying.


Sunday 3 November 2024

Natural Queer History

Josh Davis, of the Natural History Museum in London
and author of A Little Gay Natural History, said:
“Around 1,500 species have been observed
showing homosexual behaviour
– but this is certainly an underestimate,
because it is seen in almost every branch
of the evolutionary tree – spiders, squids, rams,
penguins, geese, monkeys..."



Back to Front.

Electorates and political parties
are more concerned with immigration
which is eternal
than with relatively recent
climate change
and the inevitable

surge of homelessness and starvation.


Saturday 2 November 2024

Ebony

'The jet-black heartwood of the Central African forest ebony, Diospyros crassiflora (a relative of the Persimmon, Diospyros kaki) used to fashion piano keys, guitars, door knobs and pool cues, is threatened by illegal logging and conversion of forests into grazing land or palm oil and rubber plantations. 











'An initiative to transform the growth and harvesting of ebony in Cameroon is led by Taylor Guitars, supplier to – yes – Taylor Swift.

'In 2011, Taylor Guitars' co-founder Bob Taylor bought a dilapidated ebony mill in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé and refurbished it to supply wood for his instruments. Five years later, the company partnered with the Congo Basin Institute in Yaoundé to develop ebony tree nurseries and a community-based planting programme. The company also replants ebony and fruit trees that buffer Cameroon’s Dja reserve, a Unesco world heritage site.' 



Races.

There is always an arms race,
which is very different from
a foot race.  Excitement
makes the heart race. Rage
makes the blood surge
like a mill-race.

How do I slow the inane
racing of my brain ?
I have tried Cannabis, Psilocybe,
Ecstasy in vain...


Friday 1 November 2024

Ten hours a day.

Bed.
I wake in it almost suicidal
and go back to it 14 hours later
quite chirpy and bright.
My dreams are chaotic and
interesting, rarely scary; 
and I don't at all mind getting up
five times to pee in the night.

Up.
I am outraged
that someone referred to me
at the market as that old man.

I'd rather be called an ammonite.


Fakeworld.

 






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