Youth is rarely wasted

but the rest of life often is.

Religion shrinks

the mind and the heart
- but not, alas, the penis.

Whitey wishes he were black

I am the indecent colour of dying,
a shame-shifted corpse
of beige-pink-blue-gray -
the ku-klux shade of ambition and lying.
The taste of my heart is the taste of dismay.

Time's Streamers

Between the sleeping and the waking
Between my genes and my vasectomy
Between misgiving and mistaking
Between occlusion and dormition
out from a floating ocean
a floating river flows through me
to the transcendent not-to-be

Capitalism

In Poppy Adams' The Behaviour of Moths there is a fine description of an ants' nest, to which ants work frantically to bring pieces of neatly-cut leaf - not to their own larvæ but to a big, bulbous grub which has hacked into and commandeered the ants' communication system.

As it gets even bigger it eats the ants' neglected or dead larvæ, too,
then commands the ants to bear it in a procession to another nest where it will continue its development.

Thus is capitalism.

DORA'S BOX

The most insidious ill is success,
and here's the paradox:
though now pandemic it cannot be infectious.

When push

comes to shove,
a right
is only a rite.

Pipeninsulipsistic

So much of
men's talk is
tail-trail
of lost peacocks.

The gap between the spheres

is the great consciousness between
truth and fiction
sleeping and waking
singing and talking
art and science
imagination and insight
sex and gender
love and happiness
inspiration and expiration
death and glory
desires and terrors
the left brain and the right -

is the universe
of unseen mirrors.

Art

can teach us very little
but animals almost everything.

Homo sapiens sapiens, never knowingly reasonable

My critique of Reason
is that it is rarely pure -
simply because pure reason
can rubbish the extreme cunning
that we parade under the name
of intelligence.

CERN

Stupid scientists
ask how the Universe began
- but not exactly where
their food comes from...

and so it goes,.

SCIENCE

is a cul-de-sac :
Theseus and the Minotaur.

Religion is the best excuse
for enmity and war.

The most malignant disease

is success.

Though epidemic,
it is not infectious.

More

lessness -
please,
please...

To change the world for the better

- or just to prevent things
from getting worse -
you must start at the beginning
by creating a new Universe.

Listening to the radio

I heard dolmen
instead of doorman.
I'm getting alzheimeristic
and more and more mystic.

Approaching Seventy

At last
I'm music
while the music
lasts.

Information

occludes knowledge.
Knowledge obscures
understanding.

Until yesterday

I thought that Janis Joplin's line
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
was glib rubbish. My reply was
Freedom's just another word for grabbing what you can.

But now I realise that what she was trying
so incompetently to say was that
you have no idea what freedom is if you are still
clinging to comfort, order, things, people or ideas -

in other words, the only freedom is death.

After my March bath

I start to scratch. Cleanliness
is next to weakness.

Nearly 99%

of poetry
(it seems to me)
is false.

But maybe
highfalutin' falsehood
is the point
of poetry ?

Restless night.

Beneath
the glistening, sticky moon
Man rips the robes of time.

Readers of this blog

would never think
that I am insanely
happy, or happily
insane...
and that the older
I get the happier
I seem to become
-despite being human.

Language

is the mere
and easily-debasable
currency of thought.

Squeamish people

are far more numerous
than revolting things.

The wrong whys

always want answers.

Higher Intelligence

Most of us
are wrong about most things.
Most animals
are right about most things.

All heaven

and no hell
in the well
of smells.

Politics :

the only crime
against society ?

Alone

I'm never alone
for I have
ten moons
to scratch me.

The secret of happiness :

to be superficial
- with insight.

When the happy

are not invisible
they are crushed
by the unhappy.

Insanity

is rarer for individuals
than for groups.

Solipsists

are people who constantly
make love with their egos,
their smugness, their hypocrisy,
and think they are
mirrors of time.

What Christian church

is not a client of
the Church of Pontius Pilate ?

Philosophy

could be life
beyond tears.

The road

is very short between
the meat-maker
and the bridge-builder.

It is the road of
false intent.

Masculinity

How strange
that men bond
by doing silly
or illicit
things together...

It suggests to me
that In the Beginning
men, like male elephants,
were held in check
by matriarchy.

The day is dateless

How sweet the day!
The day is hateless!
The earth, the sea, the sky
are hateless, and Man,
at last no more,
is fateless.
There is no more man.

The world has risen
from the nearly-dead,
the world is glorious,
all creatures fed
except Man's parasites
and viruses.
And godlessness,
marvelling at all the food,
said
It is good.

The meek shall inherit the earth

VOTE FOR THE MEEK!

9th February,1909

Today in 'Rotten History'

The first US federal law prohibiting the importation of opium was enacted, aimed not at the damage the drug was doing to American society (none: white people weren't using opium), but at the hated and despised Chinese,living mostly on the west coast -
who, of course, were victims of the British Imperial policy on China.
The British 'Opium Wars' were declared in order to swamp Chinese society and administration with cheap Afghan opium.

A little later, marijuana and other forms of cannabis were outlawed in the US - mainly because it was making the despised and hated underdog African-Americans happier than they ought to have been.

The world

is much too kind
to the graceless
and ungrateful.

Original Sin

The first crime
was when a human being
felled a tree for the first time.

Alienation: the crime against Nature.

During the Renaissance

there were more women
immured in Christian convents
than in Muslim harems.

The Joker

cracks an egg.
Behold!
Catastrophe.

Faute de mieux

we have all been born.

Nothing is merely relative

except
truth.

WC

Western Civilisation
a water closet
soon to be
a stinking latrine.

The most wonderful privation :

to be unable to want.