The Jesus Laundrette *

Self-operated
washing-machines
for the most soiled
and torn and twisted souls.

* [US: Laundromat]

EDUCATION

The delightfully-instructive
view is blocked by
the school.

We think we're living

in the froth of time
and not, as the wretched know too well,
drowning in its dregs.

Better not

to want to be
more than you are already;
better not to have
what you will not be happy to lose.

To loaf[e] :

the secret
of life.

Life -

this long
and minor
ailment.

Western democracy

is the dictatorship
of collective hypocrisy.

"Art"

is the art of display
and the "Great" are greatly alone
while the small are
merely arrogant.

Easter Sunday

In a society
where nothing true is valued
I am not worth knowing.

LINES TO SÉAMUS

A poem is a kind of rumour
that goes nowhere
unless you're famous.

Some people

- but no animals -
deserve to be miserable.

Dictatorship is 'better' than democracy

because dictatorship can (eventually) be overthrown.

The poetry of government

is the threat of retribution.

People, rubbish

people, rubbish, people,
rubbish, people, rubbish,
people, rubbish, people,
rubbish, people, rubbish,
people, rubbish, people,
rubbish, rubbish, people,
rubbish, rubbish, rubbish,
rubbish, rubbish,
rubbish, rubbish,
rubbish,
rubbish,
rubbish

The problem with Reason

is that we throw out the
Information that would
allow us to exercise it.

Kiss a girl and marry the world

Marry a girl and live with the world
Lie with a girl and father the world
Live with a girl and die with the world

When thoughts make the mind an abattoir

who can tell the butcher from the meat ?

Comfort

corrupts.

He lost his fur

in a storm
- and instead of letting more grow
he's been trying to change the weather.

Heroes are as boring as money

and as dodgy, too.

Man is falconer

to the larks of happiness.

If 'Free Spirit' came with a T-shirt

there would be no T-shirts.

The most dishonest word in the language ?

'DEMOCRACY'

In the Babel of Belief

thought is the enemy within.

'TEAM'

is a word which makes me run for cover.

"The sound of one hand clapping":

the amputee applauding war.

Truth is the first casualty of culture.