Anomie :

'the illness
of limitless expectation'
and illusory autonomy.

...as Napoleon might have said :

all humans are evil,
but some are more evil than others.

Since I judge

men by their beards
and women by their brains
almost all of my friends
are women.

Having

is doing,
not being.

Because we have no souls

we are ambitious.
And so we are the only
Criminal Species.

It is obvious

that most people would rather
be entertained than wise.
What is even more depressing is that
they would rather be entertained
than happy.

Sex is for the young.

Mature people know better.
But almost nobody
is allowed to mature.

The only humility possible

within our culture
is anonymity.

The only good property

is the property nobody wants.

Words

seem to corrupt
everything they seem
to describe.

The madness

of mass-murderers
is unexceptional.

Forest :

an area the size of a football-pitch
is cut down
every second.

Water :

11,000 litres
are used in manufacturing
a handbag.

Even the brightest

of us do not know
what to do with
our intelligence.

When islands of ordinary goodness

manage to survive the waves of ordinary hate,
we call it Peace.

I am angry

because there are armies.

The day that Lehman Brothers collapsed

Damien Hirst
(a non-painter con-artist)
made UK£70,000,000.

Dogs bite

infrequently.
Humans beat
very frequently indeed.

Chunqing

Long ago, the population
of Babylon exceeded that of France.
Now, the population of one Chinese city
exceeds that of Australia and Canada
combined.

To call someone 'negative'

is a fairly negative thing to do.

Under capitalism

- is there anyone
but beggars
who is not corrupt ?

Every frontier

is sordid.

They have taken away the poles

and replaced the cables
but the electricity
seems no better than before the war.

Our minds are ruled by stories

and every story is false.

The process of embalming

starts soon after birth.

Men are mostly

mindless,
women sometimes
heartless.
The brain and the heart
are houses without air.

Let things pass

Let things go
Join the flow
on Death Row

In the rich countries

people ask for refunds
for what they stole
off the starving.

Those who love silence

understand all that needs
to be understood.
Words are bedizened emptiness.

The more property,

the less conviviality.
The less co-operation
the more property.

A Curious Thing

Men's armpits in their natural state
have a range of smells
- fennel, ginger,
leather, ripe date,
pipe-tobacco, damp logs -
but their balls
all smell the same

though maybe not to dogs.

For those who are into self-harm

and guilt,
Jesus is a Godsend.

The joy of sex

is not ejaculation
but the fun of doing silly,
sensual, sexy things
à deux.

I would rather

plant trees
than 'have sex'.
I think
more love is involved.

Louisiana Purchase

OK is a conflation of Scots Och Aye with French d'accord; and guy is a corruption of the French word gars with echoes of English anti-Catholic bonfires. 'Have a nice day!' is an intrusively imperative version of Bonne journée ! Denim comes from French de Nîmes, as Gènes, French for Genoa, turned into jeans.

Denim originated in Indian fishing communities around Bombay (Mumbai) and was the fabric used for Dungarees.

'Free Speech'

is a prison
when people have nothing to say except
More.

I am

a bubble of being
outside the bubble of breeding,
of meat- eaters
- almost a ghetto of one.

Is knowing

just another form of
having -
a substitute for
being ?

Every day that passes

I despise the middle classes
more and more.
I never lock my door.

Crime enough

to have property.
Utter perdition
to lock it as well.

A word to feminists:

"If you can't beat them
join them"
is the doctrine
of treachery.

The futility of communication

The communication of mendacity

The rich patterns of our lives :

warp of hypocrisy
weft of cowardice

The more that humans achieve

the emptier they become.

Culture:

the Police Commissioner
to incarcerate the living
for being dead.

Inside Ikea

is a freshly
butchered calf.

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.

Eluctable

modality of nothingness
swallowed by the shouting
unheard past

Grace

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

Life is

the cheapest thing on the planet.