jotted down during a disturbed but fecund night's sleep.
Nature abhors
a vacuum garden.
~
In the cathedral of autocracy
every sculpture conceals a device.
~
Violence not only
begets violence –
it also spawns silence.
~
When people mention
The Real World
you know that they and it are false.
~
Jesus is Identikit.
However you imagine him – he'll fit.
~
People prefer rumour to fact
because rumours have the glamour
of shared secrets.
~
The world is a series of news-reports.
~
Before the onslaught of factory-made mugs
with stuck-on handles,
Decent People had tea-sets.
My favourite featured hollyhocks.
We all have mind-sets
locked in china-cabinets
or like teaspoons lined up in a box.
~
Beyond their phones,
from clouds to lichen,
people seem to notice little
of the world around them.
Not even thunder.
I see them blunder past
the window of my kitchen.
_
Mostly, it seems that
sex is to respect
as house is to home.
~
Memory: fragments like mercury
in little drops and pools on consciousness.
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